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

For one thing, her girl’s request to get a hamster and Linda’s weary appeasement just rings all too true.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 9, 2025

As Darcy observed in an earlier Status scoop, insiders view Thompson’s move as an appeasement offering to the returning president.

From Salon • Jan. 29, 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

The picture is not unlike Egypt today, where the government in Cairo keeps power by a combination of tactics, including management of local religious authorities that swerves between heavy-handed intimidation and cynical appeasement.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro