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But note also that many audience members rushed to the stage almost instantly to subdue the attacker, perhaps saving Mr. Rushdie’s life.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

Their venom and bites evolved to subdue prey that is far smaller than a human.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026

Tejon in 1854 mainly to monitor and subdue Native Americans, but before it closed, in 1864, it survived the fiercest recorded earthquake in California history, magnitude 7.9 on Jan. 9, 1857.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026

Seven years later, President Thomas Jefferson sent the fleet—three frigates and a schooner—to subdue pirates disrupting shipping along North Africa’s Barbary Coast.

From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026

The conductor and several male passengers tried to subdue him, but he shook them off and raced for the door.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

In person, Huang subdues his ironic braggadocio with polite eye contact and rolling belly laughs at his own jokes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026

We don’t yet know how MiniFlayer subdues its helper, or whether MindFlayer has evolved countermeasures.

From Salon ● Nov. 9, 2023

He cited Philippine national hero Jose Rizal’s description of justice “as the foremost virtue of the civilizing races. It subdues the barbarous nations while injustice arouses the weakest.”

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 2, 2023

Nathan, a rich Jewish trader, is wooed by Salah ad-Din to shore up the city’s treasury after the sultan subdues the Christian crusaders, sparing one, played with amusing energy by Drew Kopas.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 24, 2022

But again he returns when my gloom he discerns,     And subdues his dark spirit of storms; And the shower descends while the rainbow blends     And the sunshine brightens and warms.

From Verses of Feeling and Fancy by Wm. M. MacKeracher

Right now, stocks have been cushioned from rising bond yields because earnings growth has offset the P/E multiple contraction caused by higher rates, while bond-market volatility has remained subdued.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026

The company said there was "opportunity for profitable growth" through home deliveries, which could help boost trade after Primark reported subdued sales following the recent hot weather.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

The scale of the Treasury’s intervention would need to be substantial to ease pressure on long-end real rates, although the Treasury’s position may help keep rate volatility subdued, Amundi said in a note.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

Traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has been subdued for weeks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

She ended with a slow, subdued flourish of treble chords and finally one soft single bass note, like a Graphophone winding down.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns

Sun Tzu, perhaps the most famous military strategist in human history, wrote in the fifth century B.C. that subduing an enemy without fighting was the height of military skill.

From Slate ● Apr. 13, 2026

The Fremiels, relieved by the subduing of the Sunset fire, were hoping to return home for the weekend.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 10, 2025

Gigantic or tiny, fearsome or cuddly, stealing from the rich or subduing gangsters, they scamper through the film with lolling-tongued delight and discernible personalities.

From New York Times ● Mar. 28, 2024

That facts such as these weren’t obvious from the beginning only shows the power of myth in subduing skeptical thinking.

From Salon ● Nov. 4, 2023

There was no subduing Kali, as I well knew.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya