balm
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Coover’s book is about baseball, but it is really about the escape that baseball—and any other would-be balm to a difficult present—can provide.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
All of that access can feel like a balm for the ever-embattled press, a deserved return to pride of place.
From Slate • Mar. 18, 2026
The moon is right there on your phone now and that can be a fleeting balm for our troubled souls.
From BBC • Mar. 7, 2026
We’ll take our balm where we can find it, especially now.
From Salon • Jan. 31, 2026
His few words were so carefully chosen and so effectively delivered that every one of them fell like a blade or a balm on the boy to whom they were delivered.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
Vocabulary lists containing balm
"The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe
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Song of Solomon
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