mollify
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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
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
Humans, for their part, can address the rock, to mollify or threaten it.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
Vocabulary lists containing mollify
Of Mice and Men
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To Kill a Mockingbird
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