Example Sentences
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The calls palliated some of Collins’s guilt, but not all of it.
From The New Yorker • May 20, 2019
Brogan: So you’ve done this, you’ve obliterated the aneurysm, removed or palliated the tumor, what’s next?
From Slate • Apr. 27, 2017
Charm and high purposes palliated the pure ether of his arrogance.
From US News • Apr. 9, 2015
The "Knights of the Forest," therefore, constituted an obligatory degree palliated by the following ritual: The applicants filed forward, dollar in hand, to the Klavern table.
From Time Magazine Archive
The inconvenience of this system in record-keeping is palliated by various devices, for instance reference to well-known events, reigns of kings, dynasties, local lords, etc.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
