pacify

We are easier to marginalize and to pacify if we fold ourselves into such tiny boxes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2024

A Kenyan court blocked a U.N.-backed plan to deploy the country’s officers to help pacify violence on Haiti’s streets.

From New York Times ● Jan. 28, 2024

The celebration lasted for half an hour before they realized this was just a piece of wishful thinking someone had spread around to pacify them.

From Slate ● Nov. 29, 2023

Mr Coles's brother Mark said "We heard promises from HAL at the inquest for improvements to worker safety. These cannot simply be empty promises to pacify the coroner. They must result in real change."

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2023

My dad tries to pacify my mother, but the bulging vein in his forehead tells me he is far from relaxed.

From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed

“People are saying, ‘Let’s give our peculiar new king a chance,’ while the prospect of an election pacifies a lot of the frustration and rage that people would otherwise feel.”

From New York Times ● May 7, 2023

“The best that can be expected under the circumstances,” with a wan smile, should suffice, as it pacifies the audience without exaggerating the truth.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 21, 2021

Nov. 8 is his “Groundhog Day,” on endless repeat, in a way that pleases and pacifies him.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 26, 2017

“Is it really something that pacifies? Or is it something that drives apart?”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2016

But Ganga pacifies her and they agree to make over the children to Valmiki, when they become a little old.

From Tales from the Hindu Dramatists by J. S. Zemin

“What catches on is completely unpredictable, there’s almost a mysterious alchemy to it. What’s clear is this: The regime hasn’t pacified them.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 28, 2026

“I have faith that very soon all this region is going to be pacified and brotherhood and concord will return,” he said during a recent visit to La Concordia to inaugurate a new bridge.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2024

The companies pacified the recruits with niceties onshore and offshore.

From Slate ● Dec. 16, 2023

Was it a barely pacified, muddy hut-filled foggy rock on the edge of the known world or a fully paid-up member of the imperial fan club?

From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2021

“No, cookie, no, cookie, no, no, no!” said Boots, way past the point of being pacified.

From "Gregor the Overlander" by Suzanne Collins

Or you might enter directly from the street into an office, without the pacifying liminal space of a waiting room.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2026

If the Fed is otherwise confident in its bank-liquidity regulations, there’s no obvious reason pacifying the overnight lending market should be a policy concern.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026

The government sees employment as key to pacifying China's most pessimistic generation in decades, while graduates gaining even limited work experience can also benefit their future employers if the economy recovers, analysts say.

From Reuters ● Nov. 14, 2023

When politicians use pacifying rhetoric, she said, people from both parties respond by becoming less approving of violence.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 11, 2021

I called out pacifying words; I entreated; I finally surrendered.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole