appeasement
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But if you take the governor at his word, and his actions weren’t meant as appeasement, what he did was bad nonetheless.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2026
With hindsight, it's easy to mock Britain's policy of appeasement during the 1930s.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2025
Unfortunately, Burns’s strategy of partial appeasement still spelled economic misfortune.
From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2025
As Darcy observed in an earlier Status scoop, insiders view Thompson’s move as an appeasement offering to the returning president.
From Salon ● Jan. 29, 2025
Vasiljevic’s strategy of appeasement was to give him whatever he wanted, even though the item might not have been mentioned in the contract.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
Vocabulary lists containing appeasement
A Thousand Splendid Suns
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World War II
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Franklin Roosevelt, "Four Freedoms" (1941)
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