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salve

[sav, sahv] / sæv, sɑv /




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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

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

Mother smeared the salve over Dad’s upper body twice a day.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover




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