appeasement

Example Sentences

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"In five years time will we look back at this approach and see it as appeasement? See it as a massive error?"

From BBC • Jan. 21, 2026

Legal experts suggest appeasement could be viable under certain circumstances.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 6, 2025

People in all parts of government, industry and education are going with a strategy of appeasement, trying to get by.

From Salon • Jan. 28, 2025

In the late ’60s, the school decided to sanction the event as a safety measure, setting aside old furniture in some kind of appeasement scheme that didn’t always tame the chaos.

From Slate • May 2, 2024

They had been halfhearted tokens of penance, insincere, corrupt gestures meant more for his own appeasement than hers.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini