verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
attempt
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This was a clever attempt to appease the people, but it backfired.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A conciliatory gesture, some argued, would appease the cardinal and Holy Trinity would live to fight another day.
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But Stan was oddly unwilling to be appeased.
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Chacon maintains that lawmen and prosecutors, desperate to appease the public amid growing hysteria, pinned the murders on Sharif.
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Human rights activists accuse the United Nations of appeasing the militia.
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Of a burning hunger that only she could appease .
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They had no public opinion to appease .
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This was a clever attempt to appease the people, but it backfired.
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Too often New Labour appeases and buys off opposing forces: this third-way strategy makes few friends or permanent changes.