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For its part, PG&E is expected to announce changes in its capital-allocation strategies, but it’s unclear if that would placate investors.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026

She calls the new law "just a rough move to placate people", and has "no idea why schools don't just sell iron-on branded badges".

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026

He is accompanied on his reluctant journey to the finish line with a group of characters who by turns torment and placate him.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2026

In that Peacock series, Elizabeth Banks’ Lindy Littlejohn is a best-selling author tired of diminishing her well-earned reputation to placate her husband, a bumbling scientist.

From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2026

A second draft interim constitution in August gave greater powers to the regions, but this did not placate either Chief Buthelezi or the Conservative Party.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

To conceal this, Spotify placates us by telling us that we’re superior in some way because of it.

From Slate ● Dec. 3, 2020

It’s a position that by now must feel familiar to Melania Trump — her husband provokes while she placates.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 27, 2018

It reassures the people who count on us that we're back on the straight and narrow, it placates the wronged party, and, ideally, it leads to self-reflection and improved behavior.

From Golf Digest ● Oct. 30, 2017

So British Gas will be hoping this new scheme placates the government while ensuring it holds on to millions of customers who don't switch and who have traditionally paid over the odds for their energy.

From BBC ● Feb. 21, 2017

For nothing ever placates them, nothing ever moves to a look of approval that ring of bleak, old, contemptuous Faces.

From Modern Essays by Harry Morgan Ayres

The team placated him with a bottle of water.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

For the most part, employees calmly placated or humored them, with some ignoring the trio or asking them to leave.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2025

Those most concerned about Medicaid were placated earlier in the day to at least go along with this step.

From Slate ● Feb. 25, 2025

At least some openly gay Republicans appear to have been placated.

From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2024

Not when invaders were threatening the Empire and the populous had to be placated.

From "Tiger, Tiger" by Lynne Reid Banks

In the hope, amongst other things, of somewhat placating President Trump.

From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2026

Soundly beating earnings expectations isn’t placating investors skeptical of the durability of the frenzied AI data center buildout, which is driving these outsize earnings reports.

From Barron's ● Apr. 16, 2026

Neither satisfying the public’s prurient curiosity, nor allowing Epstein conspiracy theorists to second-guess prosecutorial judgment, nor placating a president’s political base is a valid reason to break the normal rule.

From Slate ● Jul. 21, 2025

“I don’t want him to suffer for the sake of placating other people,” said Mays’ daughter Jennifer Nutt, 47, of Merced.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 4, 2025

“What happened?” he asked, in the placating tone used for a child, as if humoring his wife’s madness would make it go away quickly.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie