mollification

noun

Definition of mollificationnext
as in mitigation

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  1. mitigation
  2. decrease
  3. appeasement
Noun
  • The company continues to evaluate avenues for mitigating internal control weaknesses but has deemed complete mitigation impractical due to its limited staff size.
    Quartz Bot, Quartz, 14 Nov. 2024
  • Risk mitigation: Investors recognize that climate change and environmental degradation pose long-term risks to the financial system and specific sectors.
    Christer Holloman, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
Definition of mitigation
Noun
  • This decrease is attributed to a reduction in transactions at existing centers.
    Quartz Bot, Quartz, 15 Nov. 2024
  • Gold prices tend to rise in anticipation of a conflict, but when action takes place, the price remains the same or decreases.
    Sanford Mann, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
Definition of decrease
Noun
  • But with its final ape/human interaction, Kingdom settles on appeasement, and Caesar never stood for that.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 15 Aug. 2024
  • Another suggested renaming Greene’s office for Neville Chamberlain, the British prime minister who is widely denigrated for his appeasement of Hitler.
    Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 23 Oct. 2024
Definition of appeasement
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