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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

According to the incident report, an unspecified number of people tried to subdue LaBeouf and eventually let him go “in hope that he would leave.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 17, 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

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

From Barron's ● Nov. 26, 2025

It took less than forty-eight hours to subdue the city.

From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins

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

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

One half of this cycle subdues tides, making the high tides lower and the low tides higher.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 14, 2021

He has learned to subdue himself, and he subdues all around him.

From Vineta The Phantom City by Werner, E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers)

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

An unusual combination of wide interest-rate gaps and subdued currency volatility, Jenkins wrote in a Thursday report.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 10, 2026

After an hour of their subdued quarterfinal, France proved once again that no one in world soccer can control a game quite like they do.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

Instead, a subdued Messi walked to the midfield to shake hands with his opponents, a sign of exhaustion, no doubt, but also of respect.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026

The fields and woods were shut in under it, emptied and subdued.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

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

“If I gave you sufficient men, they would be doing the subduing, not you. In which case I should reward myself.”

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin