mollify
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Maybe someone down at the petrol station, to which William keeps sneaking to mollify his insatiable chocolate addiction and where local people do unspeakable things with the gas pumps.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 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
Now the question is whether the departures will be enough to mollify the mostly young people who have been staging regular and increasingly elaborate demonstrations.
From BBC • Jan. 28, 2025
Apparently in an effort to mollify the inflamed press, he let photographers back into the barn.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
Vocabulary lists containing mollify
Of Mice and Men
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To Kill a Mockingbird
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