put at rest

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Taylor said his mind was put at rest at a cast dinner before shooting on the movie began.

From Reuters • Sep. 28, 2021

She considered the hearing "an absurd circus" and wanted to testify as soon as she was medically able "in order to put at rest false rumors, innuendos and outright lies."

From Time Magazine Archive

These rumors are automatically put at rest by the explicit announcement that he will follow tradition and run again.

From Time Magazine Archive

So far as persons born in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are concerned, the question was put at rest by the Fourteenth Amendment.

From The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 30, 1952 by Corwin, Edward Samuel

Again, the subject of internal improvements, under the power of Congress to regulate commerce, is put at rest under our system.

From American Eloquence, Volume 4 Studies In American Political History (1897) by Johnston, Alexander