salve
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But these interventions appear to be no salve for investors.
From Barron's ● May 27, 2026
The Lakers limped painfully into the playoffs Saturday night only to delightfully discover a miracle salve.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 19, 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
“All the salve in the world can’t cure what gets broken in somebody’s soul.”
From "Stella by Starlight" by Sharon M. Draper
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
There are few better salves for the pain of a cross-town drive than the prepared food sections of Koreatown grocery stores.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2023
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
Babulya mixed potions and salves for people all over the village, but she never wanted anyone to know she was the one making them.
From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack
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
Which is to say, “Shrinking” has settled into the salving vibe of a hangout comedy, what with Jimmy’s workplace and neighborhood families of choice comfortably overlapping without sacrificing the therapeutic spaces that make it distinct.
From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2024
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
I will grant that the verdicts at least draw a full circle, salving of a cosmic wound that’s been open a long time.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 26, 2021
And Wall was salving the implosion of Gilbert Arenas.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 3, 2020
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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