salve
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And coasting into the next phase of this tournament isn’t just a salve for the heartburn that the Americans tend to give their own fans.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
But these interventions appear to be no salve for investors.
From Barron's ● May 27, 2026
Cheaper money is always a salve for the economy.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 23, 2025
For him, their beauty is a salve — an opportunity to abandon reality and cast himself in a role that doesn’t actually exist for him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2025
"We fed them fish snacks. Looked at their boots. Put salve on Blizzard's paw and wrapped it up."
From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell
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Robinson ordered bandages, dressings, salves and creams online, but it was clear Dwelaniyah was in agony.
From BBC ● Mar. 21, 2024
For topical preparations, Extracts are incorporated into many skin products: soaps, creams, ointments, salves, and lotions with various concentrations of calendula.
From National Geographic ● Feb. 7, 2024
But pre-Amazon merger, you weren’t also dodging results for Amazon Prime TV shows, toys, salves and anything else Amazon thinks a searcher of Spider-Man comics might want to buy.
From The Verge ● May 30, 2022
“Ultimately, it is the I.R.S. that is stuck with short-term salves for much deeper trauma.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 18, 2022
The ship’s doctor checked each one of them carefully, applying salves to their many wounds and giving medicine to those who appeared to be sickly.
From "Copper Sun" by Sharon M. Draper
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Any spectators feeling short-changed would have been salved by Hatton v Flint, a high-energy and bruising encounter.
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2024
Some involve personal lapses, which may be salved with a show of humility and contrition.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2022
If paper could have salved our wounds, we would have been healed.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 5, 2021
After Gore’s defeat, Klain salved his wounds in classic Washington fashion: by making tons of cash.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 18, 2021
All the time they were to go on bleeding, turn about, until the best knight in the world had tended them and salved them with his hands.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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As much as “Good Vibrations” is about Terri, its ultimate hero might be music itself, in whose saving, salving power he believes unwaveringly.
From New York Times ● Jun. 21, 2023
Presidents who take office after periods of searing national trauma often reach for messages of healing and unity, but actually salving the sores of political and social division takes more than rhetoric.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 25, 2021
In the Seven Years’ War, Britain and Spain had taken France’s American empire, so American independence could even the score by salving French pride and injuring British commerce.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
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Maybe when dad left it was so painful that I ended up salving the wound with memories, to protect myself from the first time in my life I realized that dad might not come back.
From Salon ● May 21, 2017
I wondered if the world outside was so bad for us that we had to counter it among ourselves by salving one another with kindness.
From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin
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