assuage
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Agreements on editorial boards or ombudsmen are typically made to assuage regulatory concerns over a change in media ownership.
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
The quarterly results helped assuage the concerns of some investors and analysts who have recently been worried about a “SaaSpocalypse,” in which corporate-software companies’ expensive off-the-shelf products would be replaced with cheaper AI-concocted versions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
The result has left many in Michigan’s Jewish community wary of El-Sayed and looking for outreach from him and his campaign to assuage their concerns.
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026
I get that they’re worried and looking out for me, but I can’t abide their pleas or assuage their fears.
From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed
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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
A sort of penance, where by reading all the nasty comments under every post she assuages some of her guilt, as a zealot whips himself bloody to atone for sin?
From Slate ● Jan. 31, 2024
Having Castillo atop the rotation certainly assuages many of those feelings.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 5, 2023
The Church, with a spirit of concession it knows how to carry through all its dealings, modifies, softens, assuages, but never severs conjugalism.
From Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General by Charles James Lever
Tech stock losses cooled, but concerns about high costs and barriers to AI growth haven’t been completely assuaged.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 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
However, the company didn’t share specific funding details that could have assuaged debt concerns.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 11, 2025
At night, before she slept, Kira held the scrap of cloth that had so often assuaged her fears and even answered her questions.
From "Gathering Blue" by Lois Lowry
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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
Universities, far from assuaging that constant fear, should fight to make it a reality.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2025
During the first months of their marriage, he called Celia every night, his gentle voice assuaging her.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
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