ASSUAGEMENTS Synonyms: 28 Similar and Opposite Words

assuagements

noun

plural of assuagement

as in decreases

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Even with efforts to provide additional access to harm-reduction protections, escalating criminal penalties have not produced the treatment gains or decreases in overdose deaths in Colorado that proponents promised.

— Joshua Barocas, The Conversation, 16 Oct. 2026
When evidence is incomplete or when confidence decreases and risk increases, autonomy should be reduced and the human boundary tightened.

— Asaf Wiener, Forbes.com, 16 Oct. 2026

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