salve
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Drinks offer a clear bridge between the desire to buy a little treat and to not spend too much in one go, the perfect recession-fueled nihilism salve.
From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026
“It feels like such a salve for so many.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 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
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
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
Robinson ordered bandages, dressings, salves and creams online, but it was clear Dwelaniyah was in agony.
From BBC ● Mar. 21, 2024
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
The wounds and salves of family life, in particular the abrasions of matrimony, are Baumbach’s specialty.
From New York Times ● Nov. 23, 2022
Sela had placed herb poultices and healing salves on all the Warlord’s wounds.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
Any spectators feeling short-changed would have been salved by Hatton v Flint, a high-energy and bruising encounter.
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2024
After Gore’s defeat, Klain salved his wounds in classic Washington fashion: by making tons of cash.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 18, 2021
The area would obviously be free territory if it ever joined the American Union, so northern Democrats salved their discomfort over Texas with the belligerent chant “fifty-four forty or fight!”
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
But he salved his disappointment by asking the coach whether there was a way he could contribute and was appointed team videographer.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 2, 2016
All the time they were to go on bleeding, turn about, until the best knight in the world had tended them and salved them with his hands.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
The mayor also organized a community street dinner that brought together dozens of Jewish and Arab community leaders, again salving the anger.
From New York Times ● Jul. 23, 2022
Presidents who take office after periods of searing national trauma often reach for messages of healing and unity, but actually salving the sores of political and social division takes more than rhetoric.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 25, 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
Maybe when dad left it was so painful that I ended up salving the wound with memories, to protect myself from the first time in my life I realized that dad might not come back.
From Salon ● May 21, 2017
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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