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as in to satisfy
to put a complete end to (a physical need or desire)
a huge meal that should have sated everyone's hunger
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Recent Examples of sate
Jack in the Box restaurants are also open later than many fast-food competitors to sate those after-hours cravings.
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Robert Channick, Chicago Tribune, 15 Aug. 2025
The modes feature enough depth to sate the most rabid football fan.
—Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 14 Aug. 2025
So the Los Angeles Lakers, in desperate need of quality depth to contend in the brutal Western Conference, are left to sate their free-agency desires with the middling likes of Deandre Ayton and Marcus Smart.
—Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 2 Aug. 2025
With the sky purpling, the throng of clients (plus Cher) was sated.
—D. T. Max, New Yorker, 28 July 2025
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Robert Channick, Chicago Tribune, 15 Aug. 2025
The modes feature enough depth to sate the most rabid football fan.
—Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 14 Aug. 2025
So the Los Angeles Lakers, in desperate need of quality depth to contend in the brutal Western Conference, are left to sate their free-agency desires with the middling likes of Deandre Ayton and Marcus Smart.
—Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 2 Aug. 2025
With the sky purpling, the throng of clients (plus Cher) was sated.
—D. T. Max, New Yorker, 28 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sate
Verb
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The cafeteria caved, and students were once again able to gorge on cookies at the bargain price of 25 cents apiece.—
Michael Collins,
USA Today,
11 Sep. 2025
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People are talking about the storm while the gulls gorge on bread and peck at chicken bones.—
Deborah Levy,
Harpers Magazine,
20 Aug. 2025
Verb
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As a former investment banker at JPMorgan in London, he was dismayed with the lack of late-night delivery options that could satisfy his appetite working 100-hour weeks.—
Preston Fore,
Fortune,
18 Sep. 2025
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Consider the health plan that implements comprehensive provider data accuracy not to satisfy regulators, but to enable predictive network optimization.—
Tammy Hawes,
Forbes.com,
18 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Volunteers stuffed 1,032 backpacks with 544 1-inch binders, 3,264 pocket folders, 1,826 spiral notebooks, 1,032 pencil cases, 417 crayon packs, 544 colored pencil packs, 2,370 pens, 4,224 pencils, and 961 highlighters.—
Samantha Gowen,
Oc Register,
15 Sep. 2025
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Think of them like regular milk chocolate M&M’s stuffed with a small salty pretzel nugget.—
Karla Walsh,
Better Homes & Gardens,
15 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Yet the train of military vehicles that appeared was remarkably tame, a cavalcade of superannuated weapons platforms serving as a reminder of the degree to which the military-industrial complex, glutted with money and pampered by Congress, has run out of new ideas.—
Seth Harp,
Harpers Magazine,
19 Sep. 2025
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Thanks to builder strategies, shifting home designs and a new construction glut the trend has flipped.—
Brandon Kochkodin,
Forbes.com,
27 Aug. 2025
Verb
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As a theater critic surfeited with plays, radio dramas worked best for me as an unplanned diversion in my car.—
Charles McNulty,
Los Angeles Times,
28 May 2025
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But the younger people making theater now are drawn to it now because they’ve been surfeited with digital culture.—
Michael Phillips,
Chicago Tribune,
17 Mar. 2023
Verb
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It was filled with a silicon-carbide pre-ceramic polymer and heat-treated to form amorphous silicon carbide.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
18 Sep. 2025
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An even bigger concern may be whether New York has an in-house center capable of filling the 3C void.—
Vincent Z. Mercogliano,
New York Times,
18 Sep. 2025
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“Sate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sate. Accessed 20 Sep. 2025.
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