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- verb Present participle of
palliate .
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Examples
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"My goal at Medtronic before I retire is to morph our business into one which is not palliating end-stage disease but actually treating the progression of disease."
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"My goal at Medtronic before I retire is to morph our business into one which is not palliating end-stage disease but actually treating the progression of disease."
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"My goal at Medtronic before I retire is to morph our business into one which is not palliating end-stage disease but actually treating the progression of disease."
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When someone was dead they were dead, and there was no palliating it.
Michael Frayn: The day my life changed Michael Frayn 2010
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As long as we are curing rather than palliating, I do not care what you call it.
Deane Waldman: ObamaCare Is Not "a Good Start." They Are Blowing an Opportunity to fix Health care. 2009
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(As proven over and over and over but apparently ignored in Washington, you can only reduce true costs by treating root causes not by palliating symptoms.)
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After palliating his rage with the sugar-free cookies, they got him to identify a number of al-Qaeda members from an album of photographs, including Mohamed Atta and six other 9/11 hijackers.
I Guess “The Use Of Sugar Free Cookies Saved Lives” Just Didn’t Sound Tough Enough | ATTACKERMAN 2009
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The truth of this speech palliating its sententious absurdity, made
Cecilia 2008
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So that you must really hold me excused if I forgot the errors of this guilty and unhappy creature, when I looked upon her wretchedness — Not that I would have my little friend, Miss Digges, or your lordship, suppose that I am capable of palliating the fault, while I pity the poor, miserable sinner.
Saint Ronan's Well 2008
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Sir Hugh, however, far from palliating any design, disguised not even a feeling; he plunged deeper and deeper in the acknowledgment of his ignorance, and soon set wholly apart the delicate circumspection of his brother, by demanding of Dr. Orkborne what book he thought he had best buy for a beginning?
Camilla 2008
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