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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

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

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 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

Meggot gave Tristran a small pot of the green salve, for his hand and for Yvaine to rub onto her leg.

From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman




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