mollification

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Noun
  • Since 2022, when land movement started to pick up, the city has spent about $61 million on landslide mitigation, which Mihranian said has decimated its capital improvement budget.
    Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2026
  • The mitigation plan is considered part of Christensen’s personnel files and is confidential, Ames said.
    Elizabeth Hernandez, Denver Post, 7 May 2026
Noun
  • This is a significant decrease from more than 4 million acres of hazardous vegetation work completed during the last year of the Biden administration.
    Brittney Melton, NPR, 7 May 2026
  • This marked a further decrease compared to Q2, during which revenues fell 3%.
    Hikmat Mohammed, Vogue, 7 May 2026
Noun
  • But the median voter isn’t exactly baying for moderation and compromise.
    Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 7 May 2026
  • Coffee, when consumed in moderation, typically does not significantly disrupt the body's fluid balance.
    Kristen Gasnick, Verywell Health, 6 May 2026
Noun
  • The film is a quiet yearning romance alongside an interrogation of Nazi appeasement, class, and duty.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Apr. 2026
  • This time, Trump’s pressure tactics are sparking resistance, not appeasement.
    Daniel DePetris, Chicago Tribune, 7 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • 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
  • Lillian Wald, the founder of public health nursing, was also a champion of women’s suffrage, poverty alleviation, and racial equality.
    Patrick Smith, STAT, 27 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Literature’s loss of cultural authority is due in part to funding cuts, book bannings, and political attacks on higher education, but the overwhelming driver of its diminishment may be our own indifference.
    Charlie Tyson, The Atlantic, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Paradoxically, his quest for totality entailed a diminishment—of size, of scale, of material.
    Ara H. Merjian, ARTnews.com, 16 Apr. 2026
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“Mollification.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mollification. Accessed 10 May. 2026.

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