reassurance
Example Sentences
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Against this tense backdrop, Mr. Newman is offering a way of finding better ideas and a measure of reassurance that no one must be a genius to discover them.
That mutual awareness may provide some reassurance, but it could also create dangerous misperceptions, with each side potentially overestimating its leverage or misreading the opponent's intentions.
From BBC
Again and again his terrified sources, after bemoaning the Orwellian climate of the book business, beg him for reassurance that they will not be named in print.
That is an important reassurance for Federal Reserve officials, who often worry that widespread concerns about future inflation can twist consumer behavior and become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
But the promises are little reassurance for Modikwa, who says she will only consider returning if an officer is posted to "protect me day and night."
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
