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salve

[sav, sahv] / sæv, sɑv /




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Cheaper money is always a salve for the economy.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 23, 2025

More than that, some are betting that AI and robotics will be the salve to our nation’s debt troubles.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 2, 2025

For him, their beauty is a salve — an opportunity to abandon reality and cast himself in a role that doesn’t actually exist for him.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 23, 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

“All the salve in the world can’t cure what gets broken in somebody’s soul.”

From "Stella by Starlight" by Sharon M. Draper




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