salve

Example Sentences

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Cheaper money is always a salve for the economy.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 23, 2025

The heroism by a Muslim immigrant has been a salve to intercommunal wounds.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 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

Flanagan is strictly interested in what futility does to the human soul — and how it can be a salve, too.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2025

Because the weapon salve involved action over a distance, it defied a fundamental principle of Aristotelian physics, that action requires contact.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton