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Example sentences for: assuage

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It has been mocked as a meaningless gesture to stave off eager applicants and assuage the Russians.
To assuage social convention, however, and to validate Prudie's suggested retort, perhaps you and the father-to-be might consider legally tying the knot ...
"After enough of a defense to sustain his honor and assuage his backers, he will quickly sue for peace," the CIA report was quoted as saying.
In any case, my point remains: What's the point of "hate crime" legislation other than to assuage liberals?
Meanwhile, probably to assuage their guilt, my folks constantly ask me questions such as, "Did we raise you right?"