alleviator

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Major, a professor of social mobility at the University of Exeter, added: "The reality is that a teacher these days is a counsellor, a social worker, a poverty alleviator and a guardian of respectful values."

From BBC • Apr. 4, 2026

Most of the air-quality improvement came overnight into Friday, with rain acting as a final alleviator.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 21, 2022

Months passed before the captain's equanimity became restored; but time, the alleviator of sorrow and best soother of a turbulent spirit, brought a favourable change.

From The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales by Grant, James, archaeologist

When the nation was stupefied with the miasma of human slavery, Lincoln, the alleviator, broke its horrid spell by diffusing through the fire of war the sweet incense of liberty.

From Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence The Best Speeches Delivered by the Negro from the days of Slavery to the Present Time by Dunbar-Nelson, Alice Moore

And they come swiftly from the other side of the earth, over wires and cables, for your electric telegraph is a great alleviator of anxiety. 

From The Mirror of the Sea by Conrad, Joseph