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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

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

The use of police weapons designed to subdue rather than kill has also been challenged in court.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 2, 2025

A reporting rule change won’t counteract or subdue these demands.

From Barron's ● Nov. 26, 2025

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

From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon

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

Iris subdues it into a less offal-forward iteration, with ground chicken livers and flesh wrapped, somehow, in veal sweetbreads, and grilled with great care.

From New York Times ● Jun. 28, 2021

It resorts to counsel instead of appealing to the sword, and subdues its enemies without endangering its friends.

From Old Wine and New Occasional Discourses by Cross, Joseph

Yael Selfin, chief economist at KPMG, said the "subdued" wage growth made it more likely that the Bank of England would keep interest rates on hold at 3.75% when it meets next week.

From BBC ● Jul. 21, 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

That meant ditching bright orangy accents for a more subdued facade with many more windows, making the property look more like an office building than a warehouse.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026

Expectations for relatively limited central-bank policy changes have also helped keep interest-rate gaps more stable and currency swings subdued, even as the potential income from carry remains elevated, Jenkins noted.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 10, 2026

I’m sure she isn’t as subdued as you’re making her out to be.

From "Please Ignore Vera Dietz" by A.S. King

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

Young was attempting to be “playful,” according to court records, but the other agent responded by disarming and physically subduing Young, who was ordered to surrender his gun and soon retired.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 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

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

From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld