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salve

[sav, sahv] / sæv, sɑv /




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In “Who Needs Friends,” McCarthy offers no full-safe salve for the loneliness of men — after all, who can?

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2026

Cheaper money is always a salve for the economy.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 23, 2025

The heroism by a Muslim immigrant has been a salve to intercommunal wounds.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025

Brazil is also a major source of beef exports to the U.S., a salve at a time when meat prices are driving inflation.

From Slate • Jul. 14, 2025

The weapon salve was thus to be brought within the sphere of experimental science, and strange facts were to be naturalized.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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