soften

Example Sentences

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The company shifted production from the Colorado facility employing thousands of workers ahead of the labor action to soften the impact.

From The Wall Street Journal

For most of the past two years, officials cut rates when the labor market showed signs of softening, confident enough in the trajectory of inflation to buy insurance against a downturn that hadn’t yet arrived.

From The Wall Street Journal

As I peered up at him, his expression softened.

From Literature

Mrs. Dannenberg’s face softens, losing the grim determination of a business dealing that she had when she believed we were from the cemetery.

From Literature

Even doing this for one or two dishes instantly softens the “parking lot of containers” effect.

From Salon