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Example sentences for: soft-pedal

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The AMA tried to soft-pedal the Sunbeam deal as a consumer-education project, but Dunlap exploded that notion by touting its commercialism: Sunbeam, he declared, would eagerly advertise its exclusive AMA partnership.
Ted Kennedy to encourage him to either support the agreement (which needs congressional approval) or soft-pedal his objections.
Birn also shows how Goldhagen's insistence on German complicity leads him to soft-pedal the anti-Semitism of the Germans' collaborators, referring obliquely to the "pressures operating on the Ukrainians that did not exist for the Germans."