Example Sentences

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It is assuaging critics by compromising on touchy issues like board makeup, project oversight and procurement.

From New York Times • Dec. 4, 2015

Thee not the furnace of Sirius raging Touches; thy natural cool is assuaging, Unmixed, to the temperate classes, Mixed, for the thirst of wild asses.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, June 25, 1892 by Various