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Merz sought to assuage his critics this week, insisting that "long-term lessons" would be drawn from the difficult summer.

From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 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

At that level of investment, Moore said the “sophisticated third party investor groups” are calling the shots, which should assuage fears that deals are being “purely driven by circular motivations.”

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026

Except the Dodgers weren’t dreaming, and the team hadn’t done much to assuage the concerns with Sasaki.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2026

Harry felt that nothing but action would assuage his feelings of guilt and grief and that he ought to set out on his mission to find and destroy Horcruxes as soon as possible.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling

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

Squirreling the creature home in her backpack, she assuages its hissing-and-squawking terror with some simple nursing, then decides the right thing to do is reunite her new friend with its family.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 18, 2025

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

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 5, 2023

But now vaccines are available to all, making the one-ring a more comfortable space, and the lineup is meaningfully similar to last year’s, a gesture that assuages any feelings of having missed out.

From New York Times ● Nov. 25, 2022

But even this suffering is sweet to him: for Love, who conducts and leads him on, assuages and relieves the pain.

From Four Arthurian Romances by William Wistar Comfort

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

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

From Salon ● May 2, 2026

That was partly assuaged when the cast, made up of up-and-coming talent rather than established names, was announced.

From BBC ● Mar. 22, 2026

However, the company didn’t share specific funding details that could have assuaged debt concerns.

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 11, 2025

"When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow. When it healed, and Jem's fears of never being able to play football were assuaged, he was seldom self-conscious..."

From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins

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

IRobot has tried assuaging the fears, saying that it will continue operations with no anticipated disruption to its app functionality, customer programs or product support.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2025

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

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

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García