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reassuring

[ US /ˌɹiəˈʃʊɹɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /ɹˌiːəʃjˈɔːɹɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. restoring confidence and relieving anxiety
    a very reassuring remark

How To Use reassuring In A Sentence

  • A series of enervating campus visits is marked by interchangeably chirpy undergraduate tour guides united by their ability to walk backward while extolling the school's a capella groups and reassuring parents about the high priority placed on security. A Craving for Acceptance
  • An affectionate arm around the shoulders, a warm and reassuring hug, a gentle touch upon the arm, even just an understanding glance, are enough to drive away the blues and kindle hope in a heart beset with workaday cares.
  • He said: 'It is reassuring but also quite unnerving. The Sun
  • But it's a reassuring presence and it grows on you like the frown of a grizzled but kindly uncle. The Sun
  • A large, new study may be reassuring to women considering mastectomies because of a history of breast cancer in their families. Study Weakens Case for Preventive Mastectomy
  • The company was playing with fire yesterday by spending time reassuring investors worried about the dividend. Times, Sunday Times
  • How much easier, and how reassuring, if they could all simply be understood as primitive, unevolved manikins. Times, Sunday Times
  • I can picture Kim, her snug stretch jeans tucked into high-heeled cowboy boots, a long plaid work shirt open at the neck, reassuring Aunt Harriet, whom she knew worried about her, that she was going to start school again in the fall and that she was doing fine. History of a Suicide
  • Food shops line the outer edges (selling, for a Brit, remarkably reassuring grub like sausage rolls, meat pies and fish and chips).
  • Her reassuring smile did little to reassure her dismal friends.
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