Example Sentences

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They tell people what they think they want to hear and prefer mollification to confrontation.

From Salon • May 20, 2024

They may rationalize it as controversy avoidance or respect for the flag or audience mollification or economic strategy or business exigency.

From Washington Post • May 30, 2020

Working between a strong-willed mayor, Michael R. Bloomberg, and a tenacious chancellor, Joel I. Klein, he seemed more comfortable in a role as deputy mayor for mollification: mediating disputes, calming tensions and endlessly listening.

From New York Times • Apr. 24, 2011

With such left-handed arguments as these, M. Briand championed the peaceful "spirit of Locarno" in words sufficiently warlike for slight mollification of the Poincaréists.

From Time Magazine Archive

Nearly all the grimness it taken out of the "expergating" of my books by the subtle mollification accidentally infused into the word by Susy's modification of the spelling of it.

From Chapters from My Autobiography by Twain, Mark