placate

Hastily-put-together surveying is apparently being done now in an attempt to placate the development’s detractors.

From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026

For its part, PG&E is expected to announce changes in its capital-allocation strategies, but it’s unclear if that would placate investors.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026

She calls the new law "just a rough move to placate people", and has "no idea why schools don't just sell iron-on branded badges".

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026

In 1957, a young Queen Elizabeth was sent to New York to placate a furious President Eisenhower after Britain, along with Israel and France, invaded Egypt without informing the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 27, 2026

On the morning the Romans were scheduled to leave, Piper was sitting on the pier at the canoe lake, trying to placate the naiads.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan

To conceal this, Spotify placates us by telling us that we’re superior in some way because of it.

From Slate ● Dec. 3, 2020

It’s a position that by now must feel familiar to Melania Trump — her husband provokes while she placates.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 27, 2018

It reassures the people who count on us that we're back on the straight and narrow, it placates the wronged party, and, ideally, it leads to self-reflection and improved behavior.

From Golf Digest ● Oct. 30, 2017

So British Gas will be hoping this new scheme placates the government while ensuring it holds on to millions of customers who don't switch and who have traditionally paid over the odds for their energy.

From BBC ● Feb. 21, 2017

For nothing ever placates them, nothing ever moves to a look of approval that ring of bleak and contemptuous Faces.

From Trivia by Logan Pearsall Smith

Which is to say, by becoming more understanding of our oppressor’s need to be placated.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 21, 2025

For the most part, employees calmly placated or humored them, with some ignoring the trio or asking them to leave.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2025

Those most concerned about Medicaid were placated earlier in the day to at least go along with this step.

From Slate ● Feb. 25, 2025

However, "Friends" fans can feel placated in knowing that Perry was already honored by the Television Academy at the 2023 Emmy Awards, which were hosted in January due to the SAG-AFTRA strikes.

From Salon ● Sep. 16, 2024

Since he was a young boy, James could be placated by a treat from Alice’s kitchen, the sugar apple that cut short a fit or tantrum.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

Soundly beating earnings expectations isn’t placating investors skeptical of the durability of the frenzied AI data center buildout, which is driving these outsize earnings reports.

From Barron's ● Apr. 16, 2026

Neither satisfying the public’s prurient curiosity, nor allowing Epstein conspiracy theorists to second-guess prosecutorial judgment, nor placating a president’s political base is a valid reason to break the normal rule.

From Slate ● Jul. 21, 2025

“I don’t want him to suffer for the sake of placating other people,” said Mays’ daughter Jennifer Nutt, 47, of Merced.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 4, 2025

Such statements however have not succeeded in placating public scepticism.

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2024

Hazel held up her hand in a placating gesture.

From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan