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Recent Examples of pacific Xi must know that old societies tend to be pacific and that China is getting old fast. Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 23 Dec. 2024 Choose between two rich colors: pacific blue or yarrow gold. Sydney Gore, Architectural Digest, 10 Sep. 2024 Because roughly half the population there are Seventh-Day Adventists, and their interpretation of the Bible in regards to eating animals is a pacific one. Danny Palumbo / The Takeout, Quartz, 24 Mar. 2024 Mexico's pacific coast will be the first location in continental North America to experience totality, which will occur at about 11:07 a.m. PDT, according to NASA. Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2024 See All Example Sentences for pacific
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  • John Mariani Inside the walls the Piazza Giuseppe Garibaldi is a peaceful square whose surrounding buildings with their green shutters echo the various architectural styles of the city’s history.
    John Mariani, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Police watched the Capitol lawn from atop a nearby parking garage, but the event was peaceful.
    Paul Egan, Freep.com, 15 Sep. 2025
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  • But Newsom seems to have found his footing nationally by catering to angry anti-Trump Democrats, his conciliatory remarks in the aftermath of Kirk’s shooting notwithstanding.
    W. James Antle III, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Even for those in the North who didn’t care a damn for the four million held in brutal bondage, or those who wanted a soft, conciliatory approach, the war began to take on new and moral meaning.
    Jack Sheehan September 4, Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2025
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  • Known for conservative positions such as revising the pacifist constitution, Takaichi is a regular visitor to the Yasukuni shrine to honour Japan's war dead, viewed by Beijing and others as a symbol of past militarism.
    Kaori Kaneko, USA Today, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The Brotherhood bears some resemblance to the Bruderhof, a tiny Christian pacifist sect founded in Germany in the nineteen-twenties that left its country of origin and spread around the globe in response to Nazi Fascism.
    Hannah Gold, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2025
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  • To achieve excellence in AI, nations need the compute, but also chip production, AI talent, workforce and corporate adoption, benevolent government regulation, and a thriving ecosystem of AI startups.
    John Koetsier, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • And of course Wendy tells Nibs the truth, putting them both on guard against the manipulations of their seemingly benevolent guardians.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2025
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  • As the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis documented, the press are often participants, not merely neutral observers, in the Israel-Islamist conflict.
    Sean Durns, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Stellar mass black holes are considered to be electrically neutral, and until now, primordial black holes were theorized to be the same.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 12 Sep. 2025
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  • They’re placed on or next to the body and struck with a mallet to release a calming vibration and mellifluous tone that eases muscles, sparking an immediately soothing effect on the nervous system and improving synaptic responses in the brain.
    Terry Elward, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Whatever the manifestation—hair-tucking, shorts-pulling, ball-bouncing, bobbing, pocket-checking, or something else entirely—the familiarity of these motions can have a soothing effect, calming the player’s nerves before a big shot.
    Caroline Tien, SELF, 5 Sep. 2025
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  • Even kind gestures or neutral actions can be misinterpreted as hostile or manipulative.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
  • But some of them weren’t kind and that does something to you psychologically.
    Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Sep. 2025
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  • An older pet might benefit from an orthopedic dog bed, while an anxious pet could find a fluffy donut bed more calming and comfortable.
    Rachel Trujillo, PEOPLE, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The décor is incredibly calming, the beds are super comfortable and the bathrooms are spacious.
    Sherrie Nachman, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025

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“Pacific.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pacific. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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