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The other is a vice president who might be more conciliatory in the short term but could rally U.S. allies against China’s growing global influence.Jennifer Jett, NBC News, 22 Oct. 2024
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Someone wanting to be helpful, available, conciliatory.Matthew Schnipper, The Atlantic, 3 Oct. 2024
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Because roughly half the population there are Seventh-Day Adventists, and their interpretation of the Bible in regards to eating animals is a pacific one.Danny Palumbo / The Takeout, Quartz, 24 Mar. 2024
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Mexico's pacific coast will be the first location in continental North America to experience totality, which will occur at about 11:07 a.m. PDT, according to NASA.Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2024
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In one study, 18 percent of patients flew, sang, danced, laughed, lectured or enacted other peaceable activities.Diana Kwon, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2023
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These scaly, mythical creatures appear in the lore of countless societies, from the pool-dwelling, peaceable dragons of the East to the fiery, venomous demons of the West.Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 July 2024
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Georges Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association, says Kennedy could try to stack that advisory committee with people who are sympathetic to his views on vaccination, but those members are chosen through a rigorous nomination process.Emily Mullin, WIRED, 31 Oct. 2024
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The speakers on Thursday were more sympathetic to the swing voter, and harder on Donald Trump.Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2024
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Looking back now, the members of One Direction seemed funny and kind, Dee said; their zest for life inspired her.Leah Asmelash, CNN, 22 Oct. 2024
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Her kind words lower his defenses just enough for the two co-hosts to move on with the show and start taking some calls.Nick Caruso, TVLine, 21 Oct. 2024
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While the weather could play a role in this election, the forecast looks rather benign in much of the country on Nov. 5.Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 26 Oct. 2024
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These seizures are sometimes called benign convulsions with mild gastroenteritis (stomach flu), and rotavirus is a common cause of these symptoms.Sarah Bradley, Health, 23 Oct. 2024
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This will be both disarming and believable, allowing your daughter to propose times that are both far off and inconvenient.Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2022
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What follows instead is a pivotal listen that conveys trauma in an assured yet disarming way.Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 8 Dec. 2021
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Special counsel Jack Smith led a federal investigation that resulted in Trump being charged with taking part in a scheme to interfere with the peaceful transfer of power.James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2024
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According to a statement from the university issued Monday night, the protest began with a peaceful assembly on a lawn in front of the campus' Coffman Memorial Union at about 3 p.m. local time.T. Michelle Murphy, ABC News, 21 Oct. 2024
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“Placative.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/placative. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
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