temper

Children can, at times, sense their parents’ trauma surfacing in seemingly unrelated interactions, when Mom loses her temper or Dad goes silent.

From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2026

A soft reading could temper hike worries but an outsized figure would likely ramp up bets on an increase in borrowing costs.

From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026

“That said, volatility in user growth due to external factors is likely to temper some excitement on the shares in the near term.”

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026

Maybe someday, Roth will temper his empty-calories instincts and make more of a meal out of his twisted ideas.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026

Certainly no one of good sense would sail headlong into the whirling, tornado-like temper of Lady Constance Ashton, if it could be helped.

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood

"Their last meeting is what calmed tempers," she said.

From Barron's ● Jun. 9, 2026

He also says Australia's voting system tempers the party's success.

From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2026

Wilson, who has a personal relationship with Hegseth that likely tempers his typical inflammatory rhetoric, was more delicate.

From Salon ● Mar. 13, 2026

Mr. Özdemir tempers the Greens’ typical antipathy toward the internal combustion engine—important for a hub of auto manufacturing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026

While black leaders had tried to defuse the situation after the tense marches of the summer, by that fall tempers were flaring again.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

That helped the Kospi in Seoul tag on around two percent though gains on the Nikkei in Tokyo were tempered by losses among exporters hurt by the strong yen.

From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026

Asian chip firms rallied Thursday following more blockbuster earnings from Nvidia that eased worries over the AI investment boom, though the euphoria was tempered by US data showing stubbornly high inflation.

From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026

The leadership announcement came as Klarna tempered its outlook for the year, even as it swung to a profit and logged higher revenue in the second quarter, sending shares tumbling in premarket trading.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

On Holding tempered its sales outlook for the year after the running-shoe maker reported lower-than-expected sales in the second quarter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

The humiliation of wearing a uniform, even if it was blue, and deceiving people was tempered by the genuine lift which came of having her own money rather than receiving an allowance like a child.

From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison

Because faced with those competing truths, Hochman could have used prosecutorial discretion — the art of tempering the law with the mores and ethics of the community.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

A third reason for tempering our enthusiasm about the data is that U.S. life expectancy remains far below that of other high-income countries.

From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026

Annual monsoon rains are now sweeping north, with early storms tempering the blistering heat -- but also sending humidity shooting up.

From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026

Xi said at the time that the army had "undergone revolutionary tempering in the fight against corruption".

From BBC ● May 7, 2026

Silly and inconsequential as all of this was, drawing had always been a tempering balm.

From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon