Using "placate" in a sentence

The move may not only placate Baljinder Kaur, considering that she had publicly expressed her displeasure over being denied a ministerial berth when the AAP government was formed, but also means she would be out of the reckoning whenever the next Cabinet expansion takes place.
Source: The Tribune India

The officials also had tried to placate the students by offering to review their grades and allowing them to withdraw from the class retroactively.
Source: The New York Times

"This is, at best, a first step and, at worst, another deceptive gesture designed to placate shareholders without enacting any meaningful change.
Source: The Register

A successful person doesn’t hide what they feel and think just to placate those around them.
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My offers to play left-handed—intended to placate the bullies—only enraged them further.
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For example, erecting a DLS Center allowed me to play the politician, implementing section-wide laws to increase productivity or blaring out propaganda to placate the restless masses, while building a Waste Treatment Center enabled recycling from the refuse of living quarters and processing factories, effectively manufacturing new resources out of nothing.
Source: PC Gamer

  Courtesy of Marvel Comics and Newsarama The goal of the Annual isn’t to placate Twitter, though: it’s to tell an engaging, exciting X-Men story that explores how this relative outsider feels about being on this squad, and how others on Krakoa feel about her taking that very visible spot within the mutant community.
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The Redmond, Washington, tech giant sought to placate possible labor concerns about the merger by reaching an agreement with the Communications Workers of America, which also represents employees in the gaming industry.
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She did allow that they will eventually have a wedding to placate her mother-in-law, but that her distaste for the affairs stems from the fact that the actress’s own mother was a wedding singer, meaning she’s “been at a lot of weddings, uninvited” herself.
Source: CNN

The move may not only placate Baljinder Kaur, considering that she had publicly expressed her displeasure over being denied a ministerial berth when the AAP government was formed, but also means she would be out of the reckoning whenever the next Cabinet expansion takes place.
Source: The Tribune India

The Financial Times spoke to a “former Apple veteran of more than 10 years” regarding Cook’s ability to placate someone like Musk: “I’m sure Tim charmed him,” the person said.
Source: 9to5Mac

They also may be trying, as one league source has opined, to placate players and fans who had been clamoring for the Cowboys to sign Beckham.
Source: Arrowhead Pride

She seemed bitter and combative and unwilling to placate the audience.
Source: TheGrio

  From an early age, Sammy figures out—or perhaps instinctively knows—that a camera can be used not merely to tell stories and make pretty pictures, but win friends; placate or manipulate enemies; woo prospective romantic partners; glamorize and humiliate; show people a better self that they could aspire to become; shield the artist against hurt during painful moments; smooth out or obstruct the truth, and blatantly lie.
Source: Roger Ebert

Meanwhile, Square Enix may have to try to placate fans who were convinced that Symbiogenesis was actually a revival of 1998's Parasite Eve.
Source: Engadget

The towers deal and the UK talks were not enough to placate shareholders, however, who are focused on Vodafone's ability to navigate tougher economic conditions.
Source: Reuters

As predicted, Lucía successfully scams Albie (via Dom) out of an enormous sum of money to placate her fake pimp, who’s just some guy she’s friends with; she skips out on Albie during their final morning together, never to be seen by him again despite his invitation to move her to Los Angeles with him.
Source: Decider

He has no desire to be a poster boy, or placate the ever-humming machine that is the world’s game.
Source: The Athletic

With EA able to sit its own rules rather than placate football’s governing body, we may finally see Creation Centre return in EA Sports FC.
Source: Gamesradar

Was that enough lyrical Easter eggs to cheer up forlorn Swifties? It’s been a rough month for them since Ticketmaster canceled the general sale of Eras Tour tickets, but this new opportunity should placate some of the reported 3.
Source: The A.V. Club

Sand said she believed the camping ban would “placate some constituents while making life unbearable for others.
Source: OregonLive

  Defending herself: 'It absolutely breaks my heart that anyone would ever think I intentionally would want to offend and hurt anyone,' she later explained (pictured 2016) Out the door: Her comments did not placate McKellar's co-star Neal Bledsoe, who announced he would no longer work with the Great American Family company (pictured 2019)'All of you who know me, know beyond question that I have great love and affection for all people,' she told Fox News Digital.
Source: Daily Mail

To placate the party and ensure its support, Anwar held his nose and awarded the two key posts to Ahmad Zahid.
Source: The Diplomat

(AP Photo/Ashley Landis)He blamed "crowd flows" in Doha for the decision, though it appeared to be a ruling by Qatar’s autocratic government to placate its conservative Wahhabi citizens who have expressed displeasure by some events around the tournament.
Source: Fox News

Because of that, Express Scripts' announcement did little to placate critics, and lawmakers and advocacy groups have continued to demand the company and the Defense Health Agency allow all the pharmacies to come back under a more favorable contract.
Source: Military.com

OM MALIK- Om Malik Way back In 1935, genius musician Duke Ellington in an effort to placate two ladies, placed each of them on two sides of his piano, he composed and played a song — In a Sentimental Mood.
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Smith and Microsoft have been increasingly vocal about various peace offerings they have floated to placate Washington, most of them centered around Call of Duty, Activision’s blockbuster game franchise.
Source: Vox.com

""But right now, we don't have to placate Beijing with every single movie that we make," Fenton added.
Source: Yahoo Finance

The story sparked a right-wing backlash against social-media companies, which began bending over backwards to placate conservatives and exempt them from their stated rules as much as possible without allowing the networks to become cesspools.
Source: The Atlantic

That same source questioned if the Cowboys are simply going through the motions to placate fans, and that would add to a previous sentiment that Dallas was only trying to drive up the price on their division rival.
Source: profootballrumors.com

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