propitiate
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Before he was reinstated, the Anderson School’s Faculty Executive Committee tried to propitiate the mob by announcing itself “saddened” by Klein’s “troubling conduct.”
From Washington Post • Oct. 8, 2021
I suspect that Oskar probably still believes that it was just something in my nature: that somebody needed to be sacrificed on the altar on the way to propitiate whatever, and that that was him.
From Slate • Jun. 28, 2016
Was it just to tell the date or propitiate some mountain deity?
From The Guardian • Feb. 8, 2013
But under the logic of the bailout, the markets were in charge, and the overarching aim of the government was to propitiate them to avoid disaster.
From New York Times • Jun. 25, 2010
Especially I felt this when I made any attempt to propitiate him.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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