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- noun Plural form of
salve .
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Examples
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Short-term salves and deals will not do the trick.
Shuja Nawaz: As Democracy Dawns in Pakistan, Challenges Remain 2008
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Curiously, he is silent altogether on the propensity among some pharma execs and boards to pursue mergers as strategic salves, which is what led to the ongoing bloodletting at Merck.
Forbes.com: News Ed Silverman 2011
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Despite a conciliatory tone on compensation, the Goldman CEO said Wall Street should fight back on protectionist "salves," such as limiting foreign workers or forcing government-aid recipients to buy U. S.-made products.
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Comfort salves the wounds of traffic, health insurance bureaucracy, unemployment and toddler crimes and misdemeanors.
Brett C. Hoover: Can Comfort Keep Us From Caring? Brett C. Hoover 2011
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Comfort salves the wounds of traffic, health insurance bureaucracy, unemployment and toddler crimes and misdemeanors.
Brett C. Hoover: Can Comfort Keep Us From Caring? Brett C. Hoover 2011
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Parents are to busy working like salves for big corporations-or trying to find work and children 5.8 million currently in Texas do get neglected.
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I watched the physicians work, and I learned some of the simplest tasks, like how to take blood pressure, use salves to treat burns, change dressings, bandage sprains, and dispense salt tablets for heat exhaustion.
Manifesting Michelangelo Joseph Pierce Farrell 2011
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Comfort salves the wounds of traffic, health insurance bureaucracy, unemployment and toddler crimes and misdemeanors.
Brett C. Hoover: Can Comfort Keep Us From Caring? Brett C. Hoover 2011
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Still, the potency of her prose remains in place as Ms. Didion, determined to avoid pat conclusions or easy salves for the anguish she feels, confronts the passing of her daughter and her own aging.
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I watched the physicians work, and I learned some of the simplest tasks, like how to take blood pressure, use salves to treat burns, change dressings, bandage sprains, and dispense salt tablets for heat exhaustion.
Manifesting Michelangelo Joseph Pierce Farrell 2011
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