pacified
Example Sentences
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“What catches on is completely unpredictable, there’s almost a mysterious alchemy to it. What’s clear is this: The regime hasn’t pacified them.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 28, 2026
When winds blow hard across the lake and storms brew over its waters, it is said that Michi-Cihualli is angry and must be pacified.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2024
The companies pacified the recruits with niceties onshore and offshore.
From Slate ● Dec. 16, 2023
Was it a barely pacified, muddy hut-filled foggy rock on the edge of the known world or a fully paid-up member of the imperial fan club?
From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2021
He pacified his conscience by promising himself a compensatingly harder self-discipline, purifications the more complete and thorough.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
