appeasement

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Recent Examples of appeasement On March 15, 1939, Adolf Hitler moved Nazi troops into Czechoslovakia, annexing the country and ending the practice of appeasement. N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA TODAY, 15 Mar. 2025 Setting limits and choosing authenticity over appeasement has become a crucial tool in navigating an industry that doesn’t always prioritize equity. Lyric Christian, Essence, 16 Jan. 2025 Chamberlain was gullible and naïve, and Chamberlain’s appeasement to Hitler is considered one of the biggest betrayals in modern history. Tom Zirpoli, Baltimore Sun, 11 Mar. 2025 During the event, Goff referenced a 1938 speech by British wartime leader Winston Churchill, in which Churchill criticized Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's policy of appeasement toward Adolf Hitler. Hannah Parry, Newsweek, 7 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for appeasement
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Noun
  • The Florida Department of Environmental Protection issued a consent order requiring the city ramp up odor mitigation efforts in November 2023.
    James Wilkins, The Orlando Sentinel, 3 Apr. 2025
  • That means first establishing a potent incident response plan—one that allows for rapid detection, containment and mitigation of cyber attacks.
    Shay Solomon, Forbes.com, 3 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Approving the budget plan in both chambers is the first step in the reconciliation process, which allows Congress to bypass the 60-vote threshold required to advance most legislation in the Senate and pass Mr. Trump's agenda with a simple majority.
    Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 10 Apr. 2025
  • Budget resolution is the first step in the reconciliation process, which allows Republicans to pass legislation by simple majority on tax policy, the border, and national security, which is paramount to Trump’s agenda.
    Rachel Schilke, The Washington Examiner, 9 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • While code reuse decreases and code velocity increases in this new paradigm, vulnerability density remains consistent because the large language models (LLMs) that developers are using are often trained on open-source datasets rife with existing security flaws.
    Chris Wysopal, Forbes.com, 3 Apr. 2025
  • By coincidence, the administration also assumes that for every 10% increase in the price of foreign products, there will be a 40% decrease in how much Americans buy.
    Jeff Guo, NPR, 3 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Before this recent trend of Congressional acquiescence, Republican President Ronald Reagan issued 78 vetoes in his eight years in office.
    David M. Drucker, Mercury News, 4 Apr. 2025
  • Yet, whatever the deal means for Paul, Weiss, its acquiescence to Trump marks a sad day for the legal profession—or what once was a profession, and is now just another business.
    Ruth Marcus, New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2025

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“Appeasement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/appeasement. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.

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