ASSUAGEMENT Synonyms: 32 Similar and Opposite Words

assuagement

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Definition of assuagement

as in decrease

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Noun

The company said that drastic decrease was the result of pre-acquisition adjustments to the value of intangible assets as well as restructuring costs.

— Laya Neelakandan, CNBC, 6 Aug. 2026
That follows decreases from mid-year crime data for 2024 and 2023, which saw 1,194 and 1,304 incidents respectively.

— Carolyn Stein, Chicago Tribune, 6 Aug. 2026

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Over 10 days, hunters scoured locations like Everglades National Forest to remove as many Burmese pythons (Python bivittatus) as possible in an effort to promote ongoing mitigation efforts against the destructive invasive species.

— Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 6 Aug. 2026
The South Coast Air Quality Management District’s hearing board, a five-member committee tasked with deciding enforcement matters, voted unanimously to impose more than 90 measures to strengthen odor mitigation efforts and cleanup.

— Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2026

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Once a deeply impoverished and remote region, Fuping county has been a posterchild for success in Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s poverty alleviation campaign over the previous decade – and officials are keen to continue to find ways to boost growth.

— Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 21 July 2026
Chinese diplomats and the foreign ministry say that their outreach in the region is aimed at building friendship and assisting countries with poverty alleviation, agricultural and economic development, and law and order.

— Didi Kirsten Tatlow, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Apr. 2026

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Stephen Colbert’s award-winning Late Show was canceled in a move that many have labeled political appeasement, and the flagship evening newscast baselessly recast the January 6 insurrection as a partisan squabble.

— Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 3 Aug. 2026
One way out of the doom and gloom would be for Winnipeg to announce the aforementioned Hellebuyck appeasement.

— Murat Ates, New York Times, 20 July 2026

Definition of appeasement

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