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salve

[sav, sahv] / sæv, sɑv /




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“It feels like such a salve for so many.”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 6, 2026

And coasting into the next phase of this tournament isn’t just a salve for the heartburn that the Americans tend to give their own fans.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 19, 2026

But these interventions appear to be no salve for investors.

From Barron's May 27, 2026

Cheaper money is always a salve for the economy.

From MarketWatch Dec. 23, 2025

She used the salve as a paste to compress the wadded seaweed against the wound.

From "Son" by Lois Lowry

That feel especially valid at a time when we have plenty of shoppable salves to soothe midlife crisis ego death in whatever forms that it takes.

From Salon Aug. 4, 2026

Robinson ordered bandages, dressings, salves and creams online, but it was clear Dwelaniyah was in agony.

From BBC Mar. 21, 2024

For topical preparations, Extracts are incorporated into many skin products: soaps, creams, ointments, salves, and lotions with various concentrations of calendula.

From National Geographic Feb. 7, 2024

Others swear by all manner of salves and lotions crafted with beeswax and grape seed oil.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 4, 2021

Peewee and I found the hut with the salves and went inside.

From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers

Any spectators feeling short-changed would have been salved by Hatton v Flint, a high-energy and bruising encounter.

From BBC Oct. 26, 2024

If paper could have salved our wounds, we would have been healed.

From Washington Post Sep. 5, 2021

After Gore’s defeat, Klain salved his wounds in classic Washington fashion: by making tons of cash.

From Seattle Times Jul. 18, 2021

The area would obviously be free territory if it ever joined the American Union, so northern Democrats salved their discomfort over Texas with the belligerent chant “fifty-four forty or fight!”

From Textbooks Jan. 18, 2018

His right hand, though it had been salved and bound, was burned on palm and fingers.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin

Which is to say, “Shrinking” has settled into the salving vibe of a hangout comedy, what with Jimmy’s workplace and neighborhood families of choice comfortably overlapping without sacrificing the therapeutic spaces that make it distinct.

From Salon Oct. 16, 2024

As much as “Good Vibrations” is about Terri, its ultimate hero might be music itself, in whose saving, salving power he believes unwaveringly.

From New York Times Jun. 21, 2023

But it is only one case, one salving.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 26, 2021

Presidents who take office after periods of searing national trauma often reach for messages of healing and unity, but actually salving the sores of political and social division takes more than rhetoric.

From Washington Post Apr. 25, 2021

I wondered if the world outside was so bad for us that we had to counter it among ourselves by salving one another with kindness.

From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin




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