salve

Children approach large language models as a salve from real-life social pressures, only to end up feeling more isolated than before.

From Slate ● Sep. 29, 2026

“I think there has been no greater salve to the daily pain of all the division in our world than to work on ‘Star Trek,’” said Kurtzman.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

But these interventions appear to be no salve for investors.

From Barron's ● May 27, 2026

Cheaper money is always a salve for the economy.

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 23, 2025

The weapon salve was thus to be brought within the sphere of experimental science, and strange facts were to be naturalized.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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

The Henry Murray Stage upstairs at the Matrix Theatre has been transformed into an adolescent hideaway, where music and literature are the only salves for alienated brooding.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2025

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

It is believed to have antiseptic, analgesic and anti-inflammatory qualities and is used in toothpaste, mouthwash and skin salves.

From BBC ● Jan. 4, 2023

Babulya had been delivering salves and potions all around the village for years in secret.

From Anya and the Nightingale 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

Some involve personal lapses, which may be salved with a show of humility and contrition.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2022

If paper could have salved our wounds, we would have been healed.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 5, 2021

After Gore’s defeat, Klain salved his wounds in classic Washington fashion: by making tons of cash.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 18, 2021

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

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

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