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While it may not have mollified the critics, the 322-foot-tall rocket, known as the Space Launch System, or S.L.S., was an imposing sight on the launchpad.

From New York Times • Nov. 16, 2022

The shift does not appear to have mollified Maspeth residents.

From New York Times • Oct. 25, 2016

If you find your reassurances have mollified her, then all is fine.

From Slate • Apr. 9, 2012

The engagement, to one of Spain's grandest grandees, might logically have mollified a mother with four unmarried daughters.

From Time Magazine Archive

Obviously we have one of those debates over whether the glass is half empty or half full; the increases that seem to have mollified many economists do not seem so impressive to me.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich