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

Of any attempt to mollify Trump, he said "good luck with that".

From BBC ● Mar. 10, 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

Humans, for their part, can address the rock, to mollify or threaten it.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

"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

This mollifies him, and he politely shows us what he is doing.

From Out-of-Doors in the Holy Land Impressions of Travel in Body and Spirit by Van Dyke, Henry

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

To have a man so simple and so honourable to represent us in the darkness of primeval history, binds all the intervening centuries together, and mollifies all their monstrosities.

From Varied Types by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

“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

Investors took fright that the deficit will spiral out of control and were mollified somewhat Friday morning when Britain’s Treasury leaked that rosier economic forecasts might leave her with a smaller budget gap.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 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

“Of course,” says Fulvia, obviously mollified by the response to her idea.

From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins

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

From Salon ● Jun. 2, 2026

That includes mollifying the person who made her vice president, thus vaulting Harris to top-tier status should she run again.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2025

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

“Don’t tell the world what we’re trying to do,” Jack whispered in a mollifying tone.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright