appeasement
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"Appeasement cannot bring peace, and compromise cannot earn one respect," a Chinese Commerce Ministry spokesperson said.
From BBC • Apr. 20, 2025
Appeasement — the dismemberment of Czechoslovakia in an attempt to slake Hitler’s appetite for conquest — ordained a dark future.
From Washington Post • Nov. 23, 2022
Appeasement, contemporaries and eventually students of history would learn, made World War Two more likely, not less so.
From Salon • Jul. 14, 2021
Appeasement is never a good look, even if it is cloaked by apparent indifference.
From The Guardian • Dec. 16, 2019
He saw all things flowing towards heaven, which to him was Harmony, Rest, what he called Appeasement.
From Rest Harrow A Comedy of Resolution by Hewlett, Maurice Henry
Vocabulary lists containing appeasement
A Thousand Splendid Suns
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World War II
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Franklin Roosevelt, "Four Freedoms" (1941)
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