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This is a man who has pacified a team who seemed to be at war with itself once.

From BBC • Oct. 28, 2024

A wing of F-35s is being based in his state of Arizona, which has pacified him.

From Forbes • Jun. 7, 2015

"But he says that he has pacified the islands and brought the war to a close!"

From Captain Jinks, Hero by Beard, Daniel Carter

The Civil War has pacified the jarring elements and left to be realized now the beneficent results of the empire gained.

From Thomas Jefferson, a Character Sketch by Ellis, Edward Sylvester

Salçedo has pacified not only Los Camarines, but Albay and the island of Catanduanes.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 03 of 55 1569-1576 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century by Blair, Emma Helen