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The easing of lockdown restrictions coincides with preparations by the cash-strapped Caribbean island nation for its tourist high season, which it hopes will bring much-needed dollars to palliate a dire economic crisis.

From Reuters ● Sep. 24, 2021

His role, he said, was “not to ‘sell’ the U.S.A. but to ‘explain’ it, not to palliate its blemishes but to contextualize them.”

From New York Times ● May 3, 2016

Results palliate everything, but without them significant fault lines are exposed.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 2, 2015

Ultimately, biomedical research offers no value to the public if our work does not result in the availability of safe and effective interventions to cure, treat, palliate, diagnose, and prevent disease.

From Science Magazine ● Sep. 4, 2013

I put away her letters and closed the shutters and lit the candles and the rush lamp, and, settling in my chair, I read of another past, to palliate myself, Virgil’s.

From Voices from the Past by Paul Alexander Bartlett

Counting it no doubt palliates if not deadens any reservations.

From New York Times ● Nov. 7, 2017

But the art that palliates Humbert’s misery has not notably relieved the distress of reviewers, most of whom have felt obliged to ask themselves, “Why has the author done this horrid thing?”

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 1, 1958

It, therefore, no more excuses or palliates, than does any other self-originated quality in sin.

From Sermons to the Natural Man by William G. T. (William Greenough Thayer) Shedd

The disgusted O'Brien at once changed its name to Bertrand Russell, after some philosopher who palliates German methods of warfare, and gave it to a tinker.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, June 6, 1917 by Various

At thirty, youth, with all it palliates and excuses, is gone forever.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors by Elbert Hubbard

Hazelgrove argued "not all pain can be palliated" as she spoke in favour of the bill.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

The calls palliated some of Collins’s guilt, but not all of it.

From The New Yorker ● May 20, 2019

Brogan: So you’ve done this, you’ve obliterated the aneurysm, removed or palliated the tumor, what’s next?

From Slate ● Apr. 27, 2017

Charm and high purposes palliated the pure ether of his arrogance.

From US News ● Apr. 9, 2015

The inconvenience of this system in record-keeping is palliated by various devices, for instance reference to well-known events, reigns of kings, dynasties, local lords, etc.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

On the one hand, if he finds significant results, it could lead to groundbreaking methods for palliating some of the world’s problems.

From Scientific American ● May 18, 2011

With no palliating wage increases, labor grows daily surlier.

From Time Magazine Archive

The eventual answer, however, lies not in palliating deprivation but in enabling the young to escape the self-regenerating cycle that has trapped their parents in poverty.

From Time Magazine Archive

Imperitus is almost afraid to speak in her company; for, instead of assisting and palliating his natural deficiencies, she is the first to ridicule and expose them.

From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 6, June 1810 by S. C. (Stephen Cullen) Carpenter

He may well have wished to add to this glowing denial of his own insinuations some palliating personal explanation.

From The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume I (of 2) by Florence A. Thomas Marshall