Example Sentences

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People who bother to read books at all are usually not proud of the hours they spend staring straight ahead; a book about destroying the tube can be a nice assuager of guilt.

From Time Magazine Archive

Everybody expected his city friends to run down to the camp, and be called upon to act as an assuager of thirst.

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