Example Sentences

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Both Bond movies were “chaos”, he says, making noises that indicate months-long logistical migraines, high-wire acts of placation and compromise.

From The Guardian • Jan. 3, 2020

Todbaum reappeared and demanded his car keys, and the process of placation had to begin anew.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 25, 2019

On April 24, there’s a clear record of DiSabato requesting help: In an email to Jordan, he pleaded: “You have the platform to cut through the double talk, placation and finger pointing.”

From Slate • Jul. 6, 2018

The Roman poet Juvenal wrote derisively about “bread and circuses” as a form of placation and escapism during the reign of Emperor Augustus in the first century.

From Washington Post • Mar. 30, 2017

As I went up the stairs, I could hear my parents’ voices in the dining room, my mother’s raised in outrage, my father’s rumbling in placation.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly