mollify

Example Sentences

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They have every reason to mollify the Hollywood crowd to extract full value from their merged empire.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

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

From Barron's • Nov. 27, 2025

A cut is widely expected later this month – but is highly unlikely to be large enough to mollify the president.

From BBC • Sep. 1, 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

Apparently in an effort to mollify the inflamed press, he let photographers back into the barn.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand