How to Use alleviate in a Sentence

alleviate

verb
  • Soft mattresses may be a good choice for side sleepers with sore shoulders or hips that gentle cradling can help alleviate.
    Ashley Zlatopolsky, Architectural Digest, 17 Oct. 2024
  • Beyond earnings, Wall Street weighed fresh data that helped alleviate fears that inflation wasn’t cooling off quick enough.
    Samantha Subin,brian Evans, CNBC, 10 Oct. 2024
  • The changes brought about by this eclipse should alleviate some of that for you.
    Emily Simone, Allure, 15 July 2019
  • This can help alleviate back and neck stress and give your eyes and brain a break from the screen.
    Alexa Mikhail, Fortune, 28 July 2022
  • But that doesn’t do much to alleviate the stress of the deadline.
    Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 29 July 2024
  • So why not just enforce the law and alleviate at least part of the city’s housing crunch in the process?
    Robert Gehrke, The Salt Lake Tribune, 12 July 2021
  • The surgery sought to alleviate a problem he's had for a full year.
    Tania Ganguli, latimes.com, 5 Apr. 2018
  • The hope is that this program helps alleviate some of that.
    Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 Aug. 2020
  • Doctors took measures to alleviate swelling in the child’s brain and tried to save him.
    NBC News, 29 Sep. 2020
  • The best way to alleviate high prices is build more housing.
    Phillip Molnar, sandiegouniontribune.com, 25 May 2018
  • But it’s not enough to bring in more grocery stores to alleviate food deserts.
    Megan Taros, The Arizona Republic, 4 Sep. 2020
  • An app would alleviate some of that spotlight-like pressure, and open the door to more users.
    Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 10 July 2018
  • But their sympathies with the cause do not alleviate their fury at the city.
    oregonlive, 27 June 2020
  • There has to be some legal aspects that alleviate some of the stress.
    Anna Giaritelli, Washington Examiner, 28 Mar. 2023
  • The state says a long-term deal will keep Flint's water fund solvent and alleviate the need to raise rates.
    CBS News, 17 Oct. 2017
  • Such help could shorten the war and alleviate attacks on civilians in weeks and months to come.
    Stephen Collinson, CNN, 5 Apr. 2022
  • His presence in the lineup could alleviate some of the problems.
    Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2017
  • Users raved about how well the mattress stands up to long-term use and how the zoned support helps alleviate soreness and back pain.
    Grace Wu, Good Housekeeping, 20 May 2022
  • And the best way to alleviate that stress is through exercise.
    Jane Thier, Fortune, 20 May 2024
  • Gibbons, 32, of New York City, had heard it could be used to alleviate symptoms of brain fog.
    Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 4 Feb. 2023
  • However, most of the car rental services try to alleviate some of those risks.
    Rachelle Dragani, Popular Mechanics, 25 Sep. 2013
  • For Gray, those who claim to live for others only want to alleviate their own pain.
    Christian Alejandro Gonzalez, National Review, 21 Feb. 2021
  • The app also does nothing to alleviate waking through the night.
    Simon Hill, Wired, 3 July 2021
  • Carving out time for self-care can also alleviate some of the stress.
    Anna Halkidis, Parents, 18 Sep. 2024
  • He was asked if a tax issue on the ballot could alleviate some of the financial strain.
    Beth Mlady, cleveland.com, 11 May 2018
  • However, there are ways to alleviate that — and one of them is a good laptop stand.
    Thomas Hindle, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Apr. 2022
  • But CoW comes with all of the difficulties of WoW and fewer of the options to alleviate them.
    IEEE Spectrum, 4 June 2024
  • Some parts of the basin are now seeing their wettest season on record and this will greatly alleviate the drought in some areas.
    ABC News, 19 Jan. 2023
  • Somebody trying to alleviate the pain of the world — that's what doctors do.
    Devan Coggan, EW.com, 6 Apr. 2022
  • Serving on the board would enable me to address and alleviate these pain points.
    Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2024

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