pacifies

present tense third-person singular of pacify
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Recent Examples of pacifies Her younger sister, meanwhile, pacifies their father with silence. Adam Solomons, IndieWire, 4 Sep. 2025
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Verb
  • For those who are more into curves than angles, the Bialetti Moon takes all the functional elements of the moka stovetop espresso maker and subdues them with a rounded stainless steel silhouette.
    Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 10 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • For Nawaf Abdulhadi, joy comes when the choir conquers a difficult phrase in perfect unison.
    Billboard Arabia, Billboard, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Private Music conquers the Top Hard Rock Albums chart for a second week in a row.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • While Google still dominates the search market and has taken steps to integrate AI into the search experience, its market share has been slipping.
    Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Sky still dominates, and the basic structure is still about monthly subscriptions.
    Michael Cox, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Park Soon-kwan, CEO of the battery maker Aricell, had been charged under the country’s industrial safety law, which subjects senior executives to prison terms of more than one year when found guilty in the event of fatal accidents.
    Reuters, NBC news, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Today, the Court needlessly subjects countless more to these exact same indignities.
    Dan Gooding Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • However, the new fuel cell overcomes this challenge with its lightweight design.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Saginaw’s surge overcomes Boswell The Pioneers of Boswell dominated play in the opening half, building a 21-0 lead that looked rock solid behind a persistent defense and an offense balanced with good running and passing.
    Pat Wheeler, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • See video … WATCH CHARLIE HURT – Shutting the government down defeats the whole purpose of the Democratic Party.
    , FOXNews.com, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Mighty Bhima, strongest of the Pandava brothers, defeats Duryodhana by breaking his thighs and crushing his genitals with his mace, literally hitting him below the belt.
    Seamus Sullivan September 29, Literary Hub, 29 Sep. 2025

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“Pacifies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pacifies. Accessed 16 Oct. 2025.

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