quelling

Example Sentences

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The shift away from equating AI agents with human workers has less to do with quelling human anxiety over layoffs and job replacement.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

Khmara's appointment has gone some way in quelling fears about the SBU's future effectiveness.

From BBC • Jan. 6, 2026

What begins as punishing a joke quickly becomes quelling dissent.

From Salon • Nov. 6, 2025

Central Asian countries can lower unemployment and poverty rates, quelling potential unrest among their swelling young populations.

From Barron's • Oct. 17, 2025

Soon there was great peril of fire behind the wall, and all who could be spared were busy quelling the flames that sprang up in many places.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien