palliation

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Bunting himself looked down on annotations: “Notes are a confession of failure, not a palliation of it,” he wrote, introducing the few notes to his 1968 “Collected Poems.”

From The New Yorker • Aug. 2, 2016

The Earth as we now know it resembles a patient whose terminal cancer we can choose to treat either with disfiguring aggression or with palliation and sympathy.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 30, 2015

More than four in 10 Americans now meet their end in hospice care, drawn by its promise of palliation and pain alleviation instead of extreme measures in their waning days.

From BusinessWeek • Jul. 22, 2011

From all these varied approaches, Dr. Heller is confident, drug treatment will emerge as the equivalent of surgery and radiation, with its powers extended from palliation to actual cure of cancer.

From Time Magazine Archive

“It’s beyond the bounds of possibility,” one man had said to him recently in palliation of his own unfaithfulness.

From The Bigamist by Young, F.E. Mills