satisfy

Example Sentences

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The point: Dollar General appears ready to generate sales and earnings that satisfy or surpass expectations, even if consumer spending were to slow under the premise that shoppers would become more bargain conscious.

From Barron's • Mar. 26, 2026

There isn’t anywhere else that one can walk into and immediately satisfy the social instinct among a convivial and refreshingly diverse clientele in what is becoming an increasingly homogenized locality.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

From there, the council freighted the policy with stipulations that made it difficult to actually satisfy.

From Slate • Mar. 25, 2026

Private-credit fund managers sometimes sell assets on the secondary market to satisfy periodic redemption requests from investors, as Blue Owl Capital and New Mountain Capital have recently done.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026

My answer seems to satisfy them, but now both of them have been alerted to my eating patterns, and watch my plate like it’s a time bomb.

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman