In a sentence
Six example sentences with assuage, each labelled with its topic.
A written timeline did more to assuage the customers' anger than the three apologetic emails sent the same week.
Business
Writing the worry down assuaged it enough that students in the trial finished the exam without the usual blank first page.
Psychology
The director cuts to the dog on the porch to assuage the dread the previous ten minutes have built up.
Movies
A quick statement from the central bank did little to assuage the fear that had spread across the bond market by noon.
Finance
The governor toured the flooded county to assuage residents' anger, though the promised funds arrived two months later.
Politics
A clear explanation of the scan assuaged the patient's worry more than any of the pamphlets in the waiting room.
Medicine
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