conciliate

Yes, pay them beforehand, soften the blow in advance, and conciliate their good will while we still have the chance.

From Salon ● Jan. 2, 2022

He had to reward those who backed him, but many believe he also needed to conciliate those who were unhappy with his election.

From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2021

The purpose of politics — or, at any rate, one purpose — is to conciliate and to cooperate.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 11, 2018

To conciliate Federalists who still resented the recent war, Monroe toured New England shortly after his inauguration and attracted widespread popular applause.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018

Lyra knew that this was a time to conciliate, and she was happy to do that, having gotten her way.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman

For nothing inspires love, nothing conciliates affection, like virtue.

From Treatises on Friendship and Old Age by Evelyn Shirley Shuckburgh

Of course if a boy who is incapable of success in athletics does go on playing games perseveringly and good-humouredly, he gets a splendid training, and, as a rule, conciliates respect.

From The Upton Letters by Arthur Christopher Benson

This strife can cease only by means of a doctrine that conciliates all systems by comprising all the facts that give them authority.

From Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good by Victor Cousin

He is anxious to make Stoicism available for his friends; he tones down its gratuitous harshness, accommodates, conciliates.

From The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire by T. R. (Terrot Reaveley) Glover

Enough! you have convinced me that a man who contents the people and awes or conciliates the nobles is born for empire.

From Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton

I’m further conciliated by Mr. Youngkin’s representation of his state’s recent economic-development wins.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026

But of course it had its cost, in the sense that it meant he conciliated.

From Slate ● Jun. 19, 2019

If you notice P losing their cool at the prospect of not being conciliated, don’t respond to their tantrum.

From Slate ● Nov. 20, 2018

The strength of her beliefs gave her the courage to push on where others might have conciliated.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 8, 2013

And the heavy-visaged man, whose humour had again and again conciliated a House which his coarse invective had offended, once more turned from one to the other.

From Chippinge Borough by Stanley J. Weyman

A French visitor — a conservationist for an NGO and a symbolic representative of the European Union — bleats a few conciliating sentiments but is scornfully shut down.

From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2023

“However one of the tasks will be conciliating Neymar’s individuality with the team and trying to contain Neymar’s petulance.”

From Washington Post ● Jun. 8, 2018

"My skills," Quayle said recently, "have always been in negotiating and conciliating."

From Time Magazine Archive

“This will have the best possible effect upon the men,” said Lee, and “will do much toward conciliating our people.”

From Washington Post

The chaplain rose quickly and edged away from Yossarian’s bed, and then nodded with a conciliating smile and promised to conduct himself with appropriate caution.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller