salve
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“It feels like such a salve for so many.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
And coasting into the next phase of this tournament isn’t just a salve for the heartburn that the Americans tend to give their own fans.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
But these interventions appear to be no salve for investors.
From Barron's ● May 27, 2026
Cheaper money is always a salve for the economy.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 23, 2025
He opened the bag again, put cooling salve on the burn and bandaged it neatly.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
That feel especially valid at a time when we have plenty of shoppable salves to soothe midlife crisis ego death in whatever forms that it takes.
From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026
The Henry Murray Stage upstairs at the Matrix Theatre has been transformed into an adolescent hideaway, where music and literature are the only salves for alienated brooding.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2025
For topical preparations, Extracts are incorporated into many skin products: soaps, creams, ointments, salves, and lotions with various concentrations of calendula.
From National Geographic ● Feb. 7, 2024
It is believed to have antiseptic, analgesic and anti-inflammatory qualities and is used in toothpaste, mouthwash and skin salves.
From BBC ● Jan. 4, 2023
On the bottom shelf behind a row of salves in squat clay jars he found a vial of indigo glass, no larger than his little finger.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
Any spectators feeling short-changed would have been salved by Hatton v Flint, a high-energy and bruising encounter.
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2024
Some involve personal lapses, which may be salved with a show of humility and contrition.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2022
If paper could have salved our wounds, we would have been healed.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 5, 2021
After Gore’s defeat, Klain salved his wounds in classic Washington fashion: by making tons of cash.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 18, 2021
His right hand, though it had been salved and bound, was burned on palm and fingers.
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
As much as “Good Vibrations” is about Terri, its ultimate hero might be music itself, in whose saving, salving power he believes unwaveringly.
From New York Times ● Jun. 21, 2023
But it is only one case, one salving.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 26, 2021
The spending tsunami, though good news for an economy still salving the financial wounds of the coronavirus, underscores how the wealthy can propel economic recoveries.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 18, 2021
In the Seven Years’ War, Britain and Spain had taken France’s American empire, so American independence could even the score by salving French pride and injuring British commerce.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
I wondered if the world outside was so bad for us that we had to counter it among ourselves by salving one another with kindness.
From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin
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