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Assassination attempts can also warp how journalists cover a president’s opposition, and subdue how that opposition behaves.

From Slate ● Apr. 26, 2026

One comic gimmick involves Appa’s superhuman grip that can subdue even the mightiest of men.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2026

A public inquiry into the attacks has heard how Sanders pushed for a charge against Calocane to subdue some of the reporting, due to media laws around court reporting.

From BBC ● Mar. 18, 2026

Fern, whose pen name wouldn’t be widely familiar until 1851, was a bright and spirited girl whose time at a religious school failed to subdue her.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 27, 2026

I gather it up and plait it into a long braid to subdue it.

From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon

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

Their engineering subdues torrential floods from heavy rains or snowmelt by slowing water.

From New York Times ● Sep. 6, 2022

Egad, Tom, she is a splendid woman! and has that air of gentleness and command about her that somehow subdues you at once.

From The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. II by Lever, Charles James

“Most contacts did not anticipate any notable impact on wage growth, citing the subdued economic conditions and employment outlook,” the ECB said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

One afternoon, he noticed Messi leave training alone, looking subdued.

From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026

This rare fossil, with its embedded tooth preserved for millions of years, provides another valuable piece of evidence about how the iconic predator may have hunted and subdued its prey.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026

Mr. Argue applies the same brilliant synthesis of influences and mastery of several musical idioms that has distinguished his own magnificent 18-piece Secret Society ensemble, but here carrying a less urgent, more subdued feel.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026

The men continued talking, but their voices became subdued.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

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

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

He was the big presence the Lakers needed to be sure of subduing a team whose poor three-point shooting and overall ragged play didn’t match its enormous pride and championship pedigree.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2023

Graceful and unhurried, as if unaware of the chaos around them, they set about subduing the panicking Smokies.

From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld