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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.
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."
Ted Kennedy to encourage him to either support the agreement (which needs congressional approval) or soft-pedal his objections.