pacify
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There’s a mercenary quality to the more ostentatious looks; they please crowds or pacify them for long enough to compel closer listening to the intricacies of her music.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 13, 2025
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
Mr Coles's brother Mark said "We heard promises from HAL at the inquest for improvements to worker safety. These cannot simply be empty promises to pacify the coroner. They must result in real change."
From BBC • Jul. 27, 2023
I, in any case, certainly refuse to be put in the position of denying the truth of Malcolm’s statements simply because I disagree with his conclusions, or in order to pacify the liberal conscience.
From "The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin
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