placate
verb (used with object)
to appease or pacify, especially by concessions or conciliatory gestures.
have been placating
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present perfect progressiveof placate.present perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
Example Sentences
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The company — whose payouts may have been placating shareholders who were tired of a tech stock that has done little for several years — still has $52.1 billion in cash.
From New York Times ● Nov. 12, 2014
The agent who spoke in apparent confirmation of Salem may, FBI sources hopefully suggest, simply have been placating a volatile informant who was overstating his case.
From Time Magazine Archive
