as in to assure
to ease the grief or distress of
tried to reassure her that the dog would come back home by nightfall
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Recent Examples of reassure
The employee leaves feeling reassured rather than redirected.
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Benjamin Laker, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
But despite Stuart’s attempt to reassure his wife, that moment is no longer clear in our graying society.
—Lee Ann Rawlins Williams, The Conversation, 27 May 2026
The performance of the heat shield, widely recognized as perhaps the program’s most challenging engineering problem, must be reassuring for SpaceX officials seeking to eventually recover and rapidly reuse future ships.
—Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 23 May 2026
So the fact that there are not a lot of incidents of strokes in women in their 50s should not necessarily be reassuring.
—Torie Bosch, STAT, 23 May 2026
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Benjamin Laker, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
But despite Stuart’s attempt to reassure his wife, that moment is no longer clear in our graying society.
—Lee Ann Rawlins Williams, The Conversation, 27 May 2026
The performance of the heat shield, widely recognized as perhaps the program’s most challenging engineering problem, must be reassuring for SpaceX officials seeking to eventually recover and rapidly reuse future ships.
—Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 23 May 2026
So the fact that there are not a lot of incidents of strokes in women in their 50s should not necessarily be reassuring.
—Torie Bosch, STAT, 23 May 2026
See All Example Sentences for reassure
Recent Examples of Synonyms for reassure
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More important will be management’s near-term outlook and commentary on the call to assure investors demand for cybersecurity has taken a definitive leg higher now that AI is being ingrained into every aspect of the enterprise.—
Kevin Stankiewicz,Zev Fima,
CNBC,
31 May 2026
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Children of immigrants born in Italy aren’t assured citizenship, and can apply only within a twelve-month window after turning eighteen.—
Albert Samaha,
New Yorker,
30 May 2026
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Some might call this formula comforting.—
Noel Murray,
Vulture,
29 May 2026
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She was quickly comforted by Maria, and the umpire Aurélie Tourte instantly called for medical attention.—
Charlie Eccleshare,
New York Times,
29 May 2026
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There’s also a lineup of classic K-beauty botanicals—including ginseng, rosemary, heartleaf, green tea, and Centella asiatica—to soothe and comfort the scalp.—
Christa Joanna Lee,
Allure,
27 May 2026
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Mothers with babies on their backs set down their heavy baskets for a bit, soothing their children with soft words in Potawatomi.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
26 May 2026
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“Reassure.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reassure. Accessed 3 Jun. 2026.
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