slake
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Long before TLC rebranded from The Learning Channel to the home of Honey Boo-Boo and "Dr. Pimple Popper," Springer drained the human soul's pus before raving studio audiences to slake the guilty pleasure of millions.
From Salon • Apr. 28, 2023
That with it We may give life to a dead land, and slake the thirst of things We have created, cattle and men in great numbers.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 17, 2023
For what would have been the price of a ticket to the movies, customers also got bottomless soda refills to help slake what many expected would be a vengeful thirst from eating all that popcorn.
From Reuters • Nov. 28, 2022
Appeasement — the dismemberment of Czechoslovakia in an attempt to slake Hitler’s appetite for conquest — ordained a dark future.
From Washington Post • Nov. 23, 2022
The fierce beast had made a kill; her jaws were bloody and she was coming to slake her thirst in the spring.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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