mollify

No, Ms. Brown was interested in grief, memory, selective prosecution, hasty police work, the politics of law enforcement, and the need to mollify the public when a heinous crime has been committed and goes unsolved.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026

X in June sought to mollify the EU by adding a disclaimer to the checkmark.

From Barron's ● Nov. 27, 2025

The fact that it was supposed to be temporary did not mollify the people who disliked it, chief among them the short-story writer Guy de Maupassant.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2025

The first of these groups includes Bannon and may be the trickiest to mollify.

From BBC ● Feb. 8, 2025

Pocock wrote back with a long, detailed technical explanation of his design and proposed a few minor modifications that he thought might mollify Ebright without compromising the integrity of the shell.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

"It mollifies the entire course of postoperative pain."

From Time Magazine Archive

He mollifies a suspicious Senate subcommittee Did he or didn't he?

From Time Magazine Archive

My Madeline's most mirthful mood Much mollifies my mind's machine; My mournfulness' magnitude Melts—makes me merry, Madeline!

From English as She is Wrote Showing Curious Ways in which the English Language may be made to Convey Ideas or obscure them. by Anonymous

Well; this mollifies a little: I am content he shall see me.

From Dryden's Works Vol. 3 (of 18) Sir Martin Mar-All; The Tempest; An Evening's Love; Tyrannic Love by Dryden, John

He's half started to bow his neck at Boggs, but they mollifies him.

From Faro Nell and Her Friends Wolfville Stories by Dunton, W. Herbert

Some readers may be mollified by this—or amused by Mr. Pappalardo’s explanation that telling the tale of Borger required some shiftiness since “it’s just that kind of town.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026

“Nvidia will likely exceed earnings expectations but the question is whether investors will be mollified or not,” she added.

From Barron's ● Nov. 18, 2025

He ideally would like to bring Western nations along, yet they believe his hunger for peace outweighs his wish to ensure European leaders are mollified.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2025

Neither move mollified Carter, who gave Bass until May to fix the broken system, vowing to become “your worst nightmare” should she fail.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2025

“Hmph,” I said, though secretly I was mollified.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

But if you can get on its wavelength, there’s a mollifying charm to Travolta’s debut.

From Salon ● Jun. 2, 2026

Bezos rejected claims that he declined an endorsement to Harris in hopes of mollifying Trump, although he acknowledged that his web of business interests would always present appearances of potential conflicts of interest.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2024

It’s a great character moment for Danvers, who has been more comfortable than Navarro in mollifying the powers-that-be.

From New York Times ● Feb. 9, 2024

What if Reykdal, a person of considerable smarts and energy, used those traits to rally teachers and parents, rather than mollifying legislators as more kids leave public education for private- and home-schooling?

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 17, 2023

When the children had faded silently out of the kitchen, Lillian spoke to her husband in a mollifying, supplicating tone.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy