palliating
- present participle of palliate.
Example Sentences
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On the one hand, if he finds significant results, it could lead to groundbreaking methods for palliating some of the world’s problems.
From Scientific American • May 18, 2011
With no palliating wage increases, labor grows daily surlier.
From Time Magazine Archive
The eventual answer, however, lies not in palliating deprivation but in enabling the young to escape the self-regenerating cycle that has trapped their parents in poverty.
From Time Magazine Archive
No, but we might find a means of palliating it.
From Changing Winds A Novel by Ervine, St. John G. (St. John Greer)
But these laws are amplified and explained by the same book and by the Imáms.—A fine is not to be accepted for murder unless the crime has been attended by some palliating circumstance.
From The Thousand and One Nights, Vol. I. Commonly Called the Arabian Nights' Entertainments by Anonymous
