palliate
Example Sentences
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"We also need to address the economic impact of Covid in poor households, so the financial burden is not palliated by selling or marrying off girls."
From BBC
After a discussion with Ms. H and her family, we decided to try a cycle of low-intensity chemotherapy as an attempt to palliate her increasingly severe symptoms.
From Washington Post
To palliate its burden, it needs readers and subscribers.
From New York Times
The calls palliated some of Collins’s guilt, but not all of it.
From The New Yorker
But the art that palliates Humbert’s misery has not notably relieved the distress of reviewers, most of whom have felt obliged to ask themselves, “Why has the author done this horrid thing?”
From The New Yorker
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