mollify

From there, Cassidy moved to mollify his own fears.

From Slate ● Aug. 7, 2026

Official L.A., anxious to mollify angry and frightened Angelenos, dropped the hammer on a plant near downtown L.A.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026

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

“Yeah, but...I mean, for the Capitol, you’re pure,” he says, clearly trying to mollify me.

From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins

"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

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 John Dryden

"Beauty in distress mollifies the court, does it?" inquired Richard, willing to be won from his own wretchedness by talk even with a man like this.

From Bred in the Bone by James Payn

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 G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

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

Nor is he mollified by the idea of moving everyone to a nearby lot.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2023

I was sensible of a growing revolt of the spirit that suffused the whole of my frame, which would no longer be stifled or mollified.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson

This is evidently quite appealing, or mollifying, to many audiences.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

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

From Salon ● Jun. 2, 2026

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

“Someday soon, you find that fair one,” she said in mollifying tones.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson