mollify

Example Sentences

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The government tried to mollify protesters by introducing a monthly cash subsidy of 10 million rials per person—about $7, though it goes further in Iran—and vowing to crack down on price gougers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 14, 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

Then he added as if to mollify me, “I’ve promised to be there, and so I must.”

From "Crispin: The Cross of Lead" by Avi