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The easing of lockdown restrictions coincides with preparations by the cash-strapped Caribbean island nation for its tourist high season, which it hopes will bring much-needed dollars to palliate a dire economic crisis.

From Reuters ● Sep. 24, 2021

His role, he said, was “not to ‘sell’ the U.S.A. but to ‘explain’ it, not to palliate its blemishes but to contextualize them.”

From New York Times ● May 3, 2016

Results palliate everything, but without them significant fault lines are exposed.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 2, 2015

Ultimately, biomedical research offers no value to the public if our work does not result in the availability of safe and effective interventions to cure, treat, palliate, diagnose, and prevent disease.

From Science Magazine ● Sep. 4, 2013

A more difficult question arises when we inquire after a remedy for evils too glaring to be overlooked, and too grave to be tolerated, without an effort to palliate, if not to remove them.

From Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. by Margaret Fuller

Counting it no doubt palliates if not deadens any reservations.

From New York Times ● Nov. 7, 2017

But the art that palliates Humbert’s misery has not notably relieved the distress of reviewers, most of whom have felt obliged to ask themselves, “Why has the author done this horrid thing?”

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 1, 1958

I have no reverence for any book that upholds or palliates the infamous institution of polygamy.

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 7 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions by Robert Green Ingersoll

"You perceive, then, that Pietro's claim to the young lady somewhat palliates his violence."

From Barbarossa; An Historical Novel of the XII Century. by Conrad von Bolanden

But this is certain: one wrong neither justifies nor palliates another.

From The Vote That Made the President by David Dudley Field

Hazelgrove argued "not all pain can be palliated" as she spoke in favour of the bill.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

The calls palliated some of Collins’s guilt, but not all of it.

From The New Yorker ● May 20, 2019

Brogan: So you’ve done this, you’ve obliterated the aneurysm, removed or palliated the tumor, what’s next?

From Slate ● Apr. 27, 2017

Charm and high purposes palliated the pure ether of his arrogance.

From US News ● Apr. 9, 2015

The inconvenience of this system in record-keeping is palliated by various devices, for instance reference to well-known events, reigns of kings, dynasties, local lords, etc.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

On the one hand, if he finds significant results, it could lead to groundbreaking methods for palliating some of the world’s problems.

From Scientific American ● May 18, 2011

With no palliating wage increases, labor grows daily surlier.

From Time Magazine Archive

The eventual answer, however, lies not in palliating deprivation but in enabling the young to escape the self-regenerating cycle that has trapped their parents in poverty.

From Time Magazine Archive

But this attempt, so far from palliating the existing evils, has had the greatest possible tendency to aggravate them; for it has too often vested irresponsible power in hands wholly unfit to wield it.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845 by Various

Let us not be misunderstood; we are not justifying or even palliating the mother's conduct.

From The Galaxy, June 1877 Vol. XXIII.—June, 1877.—No. 6. by Various