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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

I who have done it myself, without his generous precipitancy of temper to palliate such want of reflection!—'

From The Wanderer (Volume 3 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Burney, Fanny

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

He palliates his ignorance by pretending that his taste lies another way.

From ?sop's Fables, Embellished with One Hundred and Eleven Emblematical Devices. by ?sop

The disgusted O'Brien at once changed its name to Bertrand Russell, after some philosopher who palliates German methods of warfare, and gave it to a tinker.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, June 6, 1917 by Various

It is the motive that either palliates or makes the crime.

From The Paternoster Ruby by Walk, Charles Edmonds

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 "Knights of the Forest," therefore, constituted an obligatory degree palliated by the following ritual: The applicants filed forward, dollar in hand, to the Klavern table.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

If she said this with any idea of palliating the possible lawlessness of her action in the eyes of her companion, she wasted her words.

From The Lady of Loyalty House A Novel by McCarthy, Justin H. (Justin Huntly)

They have the furtive look of conscience skilled In palliating failures unexplained.

From Too Old for Dolls A Novel by Ludovici, Anthony M. (Anthony Mario)