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That includes put option trades tied to a compute index, which can serve as insurance to assuage lenders at banks, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026

News that International Energy Agency members were ready to tap more oil from reserves did little to assuage worried traders.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

Agreements on editorial boards or ombudsmen are typically made to assuage regulatory concerns over a change in media ownership.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

"She got stuck into gritty, controversial, but crucial causes partly because she had a fine, natural social conscience, but also to assuage nagging feelings of worthlessness."

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

“This is to assuage our conscience, darling,” she would explain to Blanca.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende

To Friedman, the answer to the first question assuages concern about the second.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2024

Having Castillo atop the rotation certainly assuages many of those feelings.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 5, 2023

But now vaccines are available to all, making the one-ring a more comfortable space, and the lineup is meaningfully similar to last year’s, a gesture that assuages any feelings of having missed out.

From New York Times ● Nov. 25, 2022

Their oversimplicity both exploits and assuages that looming sense of collective guilt: They feel true.

From Slate ● Feb. 27, 2019

Patience is often displeasing, but it assuages heavy hearts, and quenches malice.

From Early English Alliterative Poems in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century by Richard Morris

Nor has the boom in stock prices assuaged discontent.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

In an instant, Urbina’s fears had been assuaged.

From Salon ● May 2, 2026

That was partly assuaged when the cast, made up of up-and-coming talent rather than established names, was announced.

From BBC ● Mar. 22, 2026

When Jared Snow goes to the hospital, he’s usually in serious pain, which he hopes will be assuaged soon.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 23, 2026

Her fears were not fully assuaged until she became pregnant early in the new year and delivered a healthy boy, John Eric Lawrence, in mid-October.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

Given the stock’s retreat over recent months, stronger-than-expected results, amid low expectations, “could go a long way in assuaging several of these investor concerns.”

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026

The goal was to provide enterprise customers more powerful tools while assuaging the White House’s concerns that they could be weaponized by bad actors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026

The presence of the Ivorian army in the remote and long-neglected northeast, hundreds of kilometres from the economic capital Abidjan, has succeeded in assuaging locals' concerns -- to an extent.

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2025

She has offered receptive council members suggestions on how to write resolutions, assuaging any fears of blowback by pointing out that their constituents get it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 4, 2024

During the first months of their marriage, he called Celia every night, his gentle voice assuaging her.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García