Example sentences for: palliatives

How can you use “palliatives” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Stress (evident in terms like prowler, skulker, lurker , as well as Trojan horse, worm, vulture, leech ) is soothed with (or disguised by) a variety of linguistic palliatives: generous helpings from pop culture ( cookie monster, Kermit ) and science fiction ( cyberpunk, core wars, cosmic rays, emoticon ); chummy diminutives ( archie, newbie, smiley ); and jingly rhymes ( snail mail ).

  • Recessions, we claim, can and should be fought with short-run palliatives; by all means let us work on our structural problems, but meanwhile let us also keep the work force employed by printing enough money to keep consumers and investors spending.


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