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Brink’s said last week it had decided to sell its NoteMachine and TestLink U.K. businesses in a bid to assuage the CMA’s concerns.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

News that International Energy Agency members were ready to tap more oil from reserves did little to assuage worried traders.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

After processing the heartache of losing another parent in a different way, Tomlinson allowed herself to miss the good memories with her father and assuage any longing for revenge.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

"She got stuck into gritty, controversial, but crucial causes partly because she had a fine, natural social conscience, but also to assuage nagging feelings of worthlessness."

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

This is the kind of thing we do, to assuage pain.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

Tuesday's move assuages what had been growing frustration at the lack of a big picture vision from the Labour government.

From BBC ● Jan. 14, 2026

To Friedman, the answer to the first question assuages concern about the second.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2024

Having Castillo atop the rotation certainly assuages many of those feelings.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 5, 2023

Their oversimplicity both exploits and assuages that looming sense of collective guilt: They feel true.

From Slate ● Feb. 27, 2019

Objection 1: It would seem that not every pleasure assuages every pain or sorrow.

From Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition by Saint Thomas Aquinas

But on Friday, the Americans assuaged all of those concerns in a single half of soccer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

That hasn’t assuaged concerns among some that a dot-com-style bubble may be building, especially given the sharp run-up.

From MarketWatch ● May 28, 2026

In an instant, Urbina’s fears had been assuaged.

From Salon ● May 2, 2026

But these were largely assuaged by a new start line procedure that was trialled at the test, which gives the drivers more time to get the turbos spinning at the optimum speed.

From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2026

A grown man can also be energized by hunger, and any weakness in his knees or irregularity in his heartbeat will disappear if he thinks his hunger is about to be assuaged.

From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison

Given the stock’s retreat over recent months, stronger-than-expected results, amid low expectations, “could go a long way in assuaging several of these investor concerns.”

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026

The goal was to provide enterprise customers more powerful tools while assuaging the White House’s concerns that they could be weaponized by bad actors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026

The presence of the Ivorian army in the remote and long-neglected northeast, hundreds of kilometres from the economic capital Abidjan, has succeeded in assuaging locals' concerns -- to an extent.

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2025

"A sincere apology would acknowledge that grievance and, in my view, would go some way to assuaging the sense of injustice," he said.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2024

During the first months of their marriage, he called Celia every night, his gentle voice assuaging her.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García