salve

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

More than that, some are betting that AI and robotics will be the salve to our nation’s debt troubles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2025

Brazil is also a major source of beef exports to the U.S., a salve at a time when meat prices are driving inflation.

From Slate ● Jul. 14, 2025

Caterpillars one after another I laid on my tongue, their char crisp bristle taste a sweet momentary salve to a body aching for protein.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

That feel especially valid at a time when we have plenty of shoppable salves to soothe midlife crisis ego death in whatever forms that it takes.

From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026

In the videos, the TV personality, who is the daughter of rocker Ozzy Osbourne, applied various salves and bandages to Wilson’s injuries, gave him a sponge bath and helped remove burnt skin from his face.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 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

It is believed to have antiseptic, analgesic and anti-inflammatory qualities and is used in toothpaste, mouthwash and skin salves.

From BBC ● Jan. 4, 2023

Soon creditors began appearing at the pharmacy demanding repayment of mortgages secured by the store’s furnishings and its stock of salves and ointments and other goods.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

Any spectators feeling short-changed would have been salved by Hatton v Flint, a high-energy and bruising encounter.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2024

After Gore’s defeat, Klain salved his wounds in classic Washington fashion: by making tons of cash.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 18, 2021

The area would obviously be free territory if it ever joined the American Union, so northern Democrats salved their discomfort over Texas with the belligerent chant “fifty-four forty or fight!”

From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018

Madison Square Garden, replete in boxing history, staged a UFC card for the ages Saturday night that salved the sting of the organization’s uneventful year and boosts 2018 with a slate of irresistible matchups.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2017

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

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

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