How to Use assuage in a Sentence
assuage
verb
- He couldn't assuage his guilt over the divorce.
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Pop these bad boys in the fridge and dole them out to assuage teething pain.
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Lindsey Hunter Lopez,
USA TODAY,
16 Sep. 2020
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The Rams didn’t take too long to assuage those worries.
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Lynn Ramsey,
orlandosentinel.com,
24 Sep. 2021
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But there is a trick that can assuage at least some of the return-to-work pain.
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Mark Murphy,
Forbes,
26 May 2022
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To get one thing out of the way (and assuage any fears), let it be known that there’s no caramel to be found in the recipe.
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Antara Sinha,
Bon Appétit,
2 Nov. 2021
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But the idea of the sheer number of people that would see [a film] was enough to assuage those fears and sell me on the idea.
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Devan Coggan,
EW.com,
23 Aug. 2021
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And if that isn’t enough to assuage fans, Jenkins makes one thing very clear: O’Neill is not off the show.
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Lisa Rosen,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Nov. 2023
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To Hassig, masks are part of the toolkit that could assuage both fears.
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Rae Ellen Bichell — Khn Reprints,
STAT,
22 Aug. 2021
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I am not assuaged by this and will not be doing a lot of SEC games next fall.
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Charles P. Pierce,
Esquire,
24 Mar. 2017
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Others are using big checks to assuage guilt and mask a lack of a plan.
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Aaron Powers,
Quartz,
29 Sep. 2021
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In the lawsuit, the states sought to assuage the court about their intentions.
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Matt Ford,
The New Republic,
29 July 2022
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But those changes were not enough to assuage some critics.
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Deutsche Welle,
USA TODAY,
22 Mar. 2018
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Of course, the child is not assuaged; she is traumatized.
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Rachel Syme,
The New Republic,
28 Feb. 2018
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The idea is that the single-trip passes could be used to assuage those concerns.
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Arika Herron,
Indianapolis Star,
19 Apr. 2018
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To assuage male egos or to feel more in touch with family life?
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Nell Frizzell,
Vogue,
19 Dec. 2023
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An emptiness, a longing, a pain in your heart that cannot be assuaged?
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Katherine J Igoe,
Marie Claire,
11 Oct. 2019
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But the ballot language is meant to assuage any fears the tax money might go to the project, anyway.
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Hannah K. Sparling,
Cincinnati.com,
9 Dec. 2019
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His response to the latest test will have done little to assuage these fears.
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The Economist,
7 Sep. 2017
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Any scene with a new set or a new location helped assuage the grief.
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Aaron Couch,
The Hollywood Reporter,
21 Nov. 2022
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But these amendments didn’t assuage many of the concerns that people had raised.
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WIRED,
10 Aug. 2023
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No one had any words that served to assuage Sinito’s comments.
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Marc Bona,
cleveland,
15 July 2021
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Changes made to the bill this week don’t assuage advocates’ concerns.
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Los Angeles Times,
16 July 2021
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That did not assuage the staffers at the Daily resisting the story.
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David Folkenflik,
NPR,
6 Mar. 2024
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In the past couple of months, Lankford has taken steps to assuage his critics.
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Lauren Fox and Alex Rogers,
CNN,
30 July 2021
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But that’s done little to assuage critics’ concerns over the treatment of horses in what was once called the sport of kings.
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Majlie De Puy Kamp,
CNN,
10 June 2023
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There was little Macron could do to assuage those concerns.
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Andrew Day,
The Week,
4 Apr. 2022
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His remarks may help assuage the fears of some big-money donors.
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Nicholas Nehamas,
BostonGlobe.com,
7 Aug. 2023
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There is shock to absorb, anguish to process, and passion to assuage, and then, in the midst of all that, there is the bureaucracy.
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Charles C. W. Cooke,
National Review,
22 Aug. 2023
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Victor is startled by this, maybe even a bit impressed, but not enough to assuage his anger.
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Erik Kain,
Forbes,
7 May 2023
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On board, fliers will find changes to cabins designed to assuage their concerns.
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Jessica Puckett,
Condé Nast Traveler,
5 Aug. 2020
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