as in to assure
to ease the grief or distress of
tried to reassure her that the dog would come back home by nightfall
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Recent Examples of reassure
The employee leaves feeling reassured rather than redirected.
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Benjamin Laker, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
But despite Stuart’s attempt to reassure his wife, that moment is no longer clear in our graying society.
—Lee Ann Rawlins Williams, The Conversation, 27 May 2026
The performance of the heat shield, widely recognized as perhaps the program’s most challenging engineering problem, must be reassuring for SpaceX officials seeking to eventually recover and rapidly reuse future ships.
—Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 23 May 2026
So the fact that there are not a lot of incidents of strokes in women in their 50s should not necessarily be reassuring.
—Torie Bosch, STAT, 23 May 2026
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Benjamin Laker, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
But despite Stuart’s attempt to reassure his wife, that moment is no longer clear in our graying society.
—Lee Ann Rawlins Williams, The Conversation, 27 May 2026
The performance of the heat shield, widely recognized as perhaps the program’s most challenging engineering problem, must be reassuring for SpaceX officials seeking to eventually recover and rapidly reuse future ships.
—Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 23 May 2026
So the fact that there are not a lot of incidents of strokes in women in their 50s should not necessarily be reassuring.
—Torie Bosch, STAT, 23 May 2026
See All Example Sentences for reassure
Recent Examples of Synonyms for reassure
Verb
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Lithogow’s win, however, was far from assured.—
Jessica Gelt,
Los Angeles Times,
8 June 2026
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Bill Owens, who resigned as executive producer of 60 Minutes in April 2025, saying he could no longer be assured of editorial independence, praised Pelley for his remarks.—
Natalie Oganesyan,
Deadline,
7 June 2026
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Her parents were comforted to know that with proper medication, Marissa could live an otherwise normal life.—
Steve Buckley,
New York Times,
5 June 2026
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Chmerkovskiy seemingly took a moment to comfort Slater over the fall before the pair got back up and the group got ready to go again.—
Mekishana Pierre,
Entertainment Weekly,
1 June 2026
Verb
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Get kitted out for a day on the slopes in the in-house ski room before returning to the indoor pool and soothing hands of therapists at Spa L'Apogée by La Prairie.—
Matt Ortile,
Condé Nast Traveler,
3 June 2026
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Hall remembers being at a homegoing service for a youth lost to gun violence – witnessing a room filled with hurt, chaos, young people all over the place, Spencer came in like Casper, the Friendly Ghost – soothed the family and changed the temperature in the room without grabbing the mic.—
Darcel Rockett,
Chicago Tribune,
2 June 2026
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“Reassure.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reassure. Accessed 11 Jun. 2026.
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