pacify
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His top priority since taking power has been to unite a bitterly divided Syria, and pacify external relations with its neighbours, while he cements his power and control.
From BBC • Apr. 4, 2025
We are easier to marginalize and to pacify if we fold ourselves into such tiny boxes.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 4, 2024
A Kenyan court blocked a U.N.-backed plan to deploy the country’s officers to help pacify violence on Haiti’s streets.
From New York Times • Jan. 28, 2024
The celebration lasted for half an hour before they realized this was just a piece of wishful thinking someone had spread around to pacify them.
From Slate • Nov. 29, 2023
Two years had done little to pacify the San Franciscan hostility for the automobile.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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