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verb

past tense of mollify
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Recent Examples of mollified
Adjective
Sometimes, a particular human trait can moderate whether a person is going to be antagonistic toward AI artwork or more mollified. Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 20 May 2026
Verb
But not everyone was mollified by the announcement. O. Rose Broderick, STAT, 24 Apr. 2026 But the boy wouldn't be mollified. Danielle Parker, CBS News, 15 Feb. 2026 While protesters may be frightened and grieving after last month's bloodbath, they're not mollified. Arkansas Online, 10 Feb. 2026 Choi’s suggestions haven’t mollified Young Poong and MBK Partners. Nicholas Gordon, Fortune Asia, 20 Jan. 2025 Netanyahu has mollified his overexuberant colleagues on the right mostly by acquiescing to their demands in the domestic sphere. Shalom Lipner, Foreign Affairs, 26 Apr. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mollified
Adjective
  • Neither Cola’s guilt over her actions nor her reasons for doing them appeased Carrie.
    Sabrina Reed, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026
  • Some residents, however, aren’t appeased.
    Michelle L. Quinn, Chicago Tribune, 7 June 2026
Verb
  • For the moment, though, I was relieved to turn on the navigation and follow our blue dot all the way home.
    Shayla Love, New Yorker, 6 Aug. 2026
  • Although Salguero-Olivares has maintained his innocence, Connie was relieved that there was an arrest in her daughter’s case.
    Angel Saunders, PEOPLE, 4 Aug. 2026
Adjective
  • Gillian Anderson is elated that she’s been immortalized in minifigure form for the new LEGO X-Files set.
    Matt Gardner, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
  • Either way, the team is elated to have the 39-year-old five-time All-Star and 2013 NL MVP, hyphens and all.
    AJ Willingham, AJC.com, 6 July 2026
Verb
  • Google may have alleviated immediate concerns by deciding to quickly remove the AI tool within Google Earth—but its statement suggested that the company could eventually bring the feature back in the future.
    Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 31 July 2026
  • Some patients also report that the drugs have alleviated a range of addictions, from alcohol to gambling.
    Elyse Moody, Architectural Digest, 27 July 2026
Adjective
  • His prose radiates an ecstatic pessimism, as if lit up from within by the relief of not having to sugarcoat things with comforting lies.
    Peter C. Baker, New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2026
  • There was little doubt fans would be ecstatic about Patrick Kane coming back.
    Scott Powers, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Paul is easily soothed, enjoys engaging with others, and feels comfortable in new environments.
    MARE Staff, Boston Herald, 2 Aug. 2026
  • Abbott’s campaign season turnabout on data centers doesn’t seem to have soothed many.
    Marc Levy, Fortune, 23 July 2026
Adjective
  • Audiences, however, have remained enraptured by its enduring story, in which one man’s public (and private) persona crumbles as one woman’s own star rises.
    Nathan Smith, Air Mail, 18 July 2026
  • But ate every single chicken wing, every single Waffle House, every single nugget from Buc-ee's, and were utterly enraptured.
    Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 17 July 2026
Verb
  • Born in Vienna to a Russian mother and Nigerian father, Ndukwe learned English at school from an early age and that has helped since moving to Merseyside.
    James Pearce, New York Times, 12 Aug. 2026
  • That cost millions of layoffs, but helped propel China to overtake Japan as the second-largest economy behind the United States in 2010.
    ABC News, ABC News, 12 Aug. 2026

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“Mollified.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mollified. Accessed 14 Aug. 2026.

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