placate
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But it will have its work cut out to placate the mercurial Republican.
From Barron's • Apr. 28, 2026
In 1957, a young Queen Elizabeth was sent to New York to placate a furious President Eisenhower after Britain, along with Israel and France, invaded Egypt without informing the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 27, 2026
In that Peacock series, Elizabeth Banks’ Lindy Littlejohn is a best-selling author tired of diminishing her well-earned reputation to placate her husband, a bumbling scientist.
From Salon • Apr. 23, 2026
And she has one of the best laugh lines in the movie when she bats her eyes at the baddies and tries to placate them with, “You guys seem like good people.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2026
To placate Lydia, she agreed to ask Dickie’s family for a meeting, banking on the fact that Dickie’s son, Jimmy, would refuse.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
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