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- noun Plural form of
placation .
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Examples
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Our government has steadily eroded this concept in favor of short-term placations to loud complaining constituents.
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It's consoled with inner placations, like "There's more important things in a marriage than sex", or "This is just a phase" or "My attraction will increase when the kids are older."
Delaine Moore: Would You Rather Read a Book or Have Sex?: A Poll for Wives Delaine Moore 2012
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It's consoled with inner placations, like "There's more important things in a marriage than sex", or "This is just a phase" or "My attraction will increase when the kids are older."
Delaine Moore: Would You Rather Read a Book or Have Sex?: A Poll for Wives Delaine Moore 2012
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It's consoled with inner placations, like "There's more important things in a marriage than sex", or "This is just a phase" or "My attraction will increase when the kids are older."
Delaine Moore: Would You Rather Read a Book or Have Sex?: A Poll for Wives Delaine Moore 2012
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At present, a dangerous cycle of stupid provocations by the North and placations by the South has entered a new phase.
Bernard Rowan: Oh, My Korea Bernard Rowan 2011
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It's consoled with inner placations, like "There's more important things in a marriage than sex", or "This is just a phase" or "My attraction will increase when the kids are older."
Delaine Moore: Would You Rather Read a Book or Have Sex?: A Poll for Wives Delaine Moore 2012
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It's consoled with inner placations, like "There's more important things in a marriage than sex", or "This is just a phase" or "My attraction will increase when the kids are older."
Delaine Moore: Would You Rather Read a Book or Have Sex?: A Poll for Wives Delaine Moore 2012
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It's consoled with inner placations, like "There's more important things in a marriage than sex", or "This is just a phase" or "My attraction will increase when the kids are older."
Delaine Moore: Would You Rather Read a Book or Have Sex?: A Poll for Wives Delaine Moore 2012
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In watching/listening to public pronouncements, I often get the smell of a planned, or real, schizophrenic presentation of truth, untruth, placations, avoidances, isolation, disconnection and fuzzy logic.
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Rather, those excuses and explanations become mechanisms for sustaining the tension, for offering little releases here and there, little placations which mitigate the sense of incredibility enough that the reader gets drawn into a more intense state without suffering incredibility-overload and getting kicked out of the story.
Strange Fiction 8 Hal Duncan 2006
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