mollify
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To mollify furious traders, South Korean regulators suspended new approvals of leveraged single-stock funds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
X in June sought to mollify the EU by adding a disclaimer to the checkmark.
From Barron's ● Nov. 27, 2025
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has taken a cautious approach, seeking to mollify Trump.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 2, 2025
The first of these groups includes Bannon and may be the trickiest to mollify.
From BBC ● Feb. 8, 2025
“I’ll get them later,” he said to mollify me, then slammed the door.
From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter
"It mollifies the entire course of postoperative pain."
From Time Magazine Archive
He mollifies a suspicious Senate subcommittee Did he or didn't he?
From Time Magazine Archive
So, so; she mollifies apace—she's struck with my figure! this attitude has had its effect.
From The Duenna by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
He's half started to bow his neck at Boggs, but they mollifies him.
From Faro Nell and Her Friends Wolfville Stories by W. Herbert Dunton
To have a man so simple and so honourable to represent us in the darkness of primeval history, binds all the intervening centuries together, and mollifies all their monstrosities.
From Varied Types by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
He was not at all mollified by a problem with the GPS system that shows teams where all the cars are on track.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
The inequalities made many Scottish politicians pause, until their concerns were mollified by generous financial rewards.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026
“Nvidia will likely exceed earnings expectations but the question is whether investors will be mollified or not,” she added.
From Barron's ● Nov. 18, 2025
They were not, in the main, mollified by the answers she was giving.
From Slate ● Jan. 10, 2025
Anna May’s kindness to Ma had mollified me, but I was still at a loss for what to say.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
This is evidently quite appealing, or mollifying, to many audiences.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
But if you can get on its wavelength, there’s a mollifying charm to Travolta’s debut.
From Salon ● Jun. 2, 2026
That includes mollifying the person who made her vice president, thus vaulting Harris to top-tier status should she run again.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2025
It’s a great character moment for Danvers, who has been more comfortable than Navarro in mollifying the powers-that-be.
From New York Times ● Feb. 9, 2024
Chamberlin was startled to see that Holmes’s false warmth seemed to be mollifying the creditors.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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