palliate
Example Sentences
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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
Men must, therefore, endeavour to palliate what they cannot cure.
From Essays by Hume, David
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
