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salve

[sav, sahv] / sæv, sɑv /




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There is a misconception that greater connectivity with family and friends acts as a kind of salve for longer deployments.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

Drinks offer a clear bridge between the desire to buy a little treat and to not spend too much in one go, the perfect recession-fueled nihilism salve.

From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026

“It feels like such a salve for so many.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

But these interventions appear to be no salve for investors.

From Barron's ● May 27, 2026

He bellowed when Mother tried to apply the salve.

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

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

Which doesn’t make Pádraic wrong to assume that there are salves for life’s woes, and that he might, in fact, be one of them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2022

Sela had placed herb poultices and healing salves on all the Warlord’s wounds.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

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

His right hand, though it had been salved and bound, was burned on palm and fingers.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin

The mayor also organized a community street dinner that brought together dozens of Jewish and Arab community leaders, again salving the anger.

From New York Times ● Jul. 23, 2022

But it is only one case, one salving.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 26, 2021

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

It was not my intention to hurt or humiliate her; the irony of it was that the plan I conceived had as its purpose the salving of Granny’s frustrated feelings toward me.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright


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