palliate

Example Sentences

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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

Yet we know that it has passively allowed a great deal to occur, a fact which it subsequently seeks to conceal and to palliate.

From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Freud, Sigmund