Definitions
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- noun Plural form of
palliative .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The Europeans keep throwing money at problems and insisting on short-term palliatives.
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America can't drill its way out of our oil shortage and short-term palliatives, such as suspending the gasoline tax or strong-arming Saudis to increase production, aren't the answer.
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America can't drill its way out of our oil shortage and short-term palliatives, such as suspending the gasoline tax or strong-arming Saudis to increase production, aren't the answer.
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America can't drill its way out of our oil shortage and short-term palliatives, such as suspending the gasoline tax or strong-arming Saudis to increase production, aren't the answer.
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For the last couple of decades, firms have sought to fend off the challenge, not by solving the root cause, but rather by deploying what might be called "palliatives".
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Wasteful subsidies are short-term palliatives or tools of political patronage that do more harm than good.
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Short-term palliatives for economic ills -- currency depreciation, capital controls, low interest rates, basic income grants -- have been resisted.
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Dismissing at once all so-called palliatives, drugs, unguents, pressure, and injections, as mere waste of time, and holding that the only method of cure consists in laying the fistula fairly open, the question narrows itself into this: What is the best method of laying it open?
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Removing state CS and DV regimes etc will of course make a HUGE difference in the War, but it i administrating "palliatives," not "treating the disease itself."
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Removing state CS and DV regimes etc will of course make a HUGE difference in the War, but it i administrating "palliatives," not "treating the disease itself."
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