pacification
Britishnoun
Other Word Forms
- pacificatory adjective
Example Sentences
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Speaking in Madrid, Sanchez says the deployment could happen "once we can see how to advance this task of pacification."
From Barron's • Jan. 8, 2026
“We have to move forward little by little until we achieve the pacification of the entire country,” says Senator Salagado.
From BBC • May 22, 2024
“We have gone through several periods — slavery, emancipation, underpaid and overworked, pacification, integration, trying to prove something instead of dwelling in our own household,” she told The Progress-Bulletin of Pomona, Calif., in early 1972.
From New York Times • Jun. 3, 2022
Conservative President Guillermo Lasso has promised to reduce prison violence through a gang pacification process, early release for prisoners and political and social reforms.
From Reuters • May 9, 2022
There was another outfit doing a pacification project a few kilometers from us, and the chopper that had picked them up was waiting with our chopper.
From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers
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