fangs
Example Sentences
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The film’s ironic tone largely defangs the transgressive films it parodies, but Kramer does broaden the scope of the queer leather canon.
From New York Times • Oct. 27, 2022
Such therapy defangs chronic pain of its sharpest weapon—fear.
From Scientific American • Sep. 8, 2022
But Spassky neatly defangs the Black counterattack with an exchange of queens, and a single pawn proves to be enough to ensure the win.
From Washington Times • Jul. 13, 2021
There’s always a debate about whether satire defangs the monster.
From The Guardian • Nov. 1, 2020
And that’s a shame, because the show has a clear philosophical investment in the ways deathlessness defangs and distorts those puzzles.
From Slate • May 24, 2018
