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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

The land wasn’t empty, and Native American tribes fought fiercely to defend it in alliance with the British, leading Washington to dispatch multiple punitive expeditions to subdue them and exert American control.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026

Their bite, which injects toxins, is executed for two reasons: to subdue their prey and to defend themselves, according to the California Poison Control System.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2026

The Norman invasion of 1066 saw King Edward I of England subdue Wales, leading to the establishment of the title of Prince of Wales in 1284.

From BBC ● Dec. 7, 2025

The box with the baits was under the stem of the skiff along with the club that was used to subdue the big fish when they were brought alongside.

From "The Old Man and The Sea" by Ernest Hemingway

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

A masterpiece of bromantic woes, the movie subdues toxic masculinity and makes a case for men’s often dismissed necessity for platonic companionship.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2020

It is perhaps this knowledge of their actual weakness which subdues them since they cannot afford to openly avow feelings which are inimical to us and which would betoken their own hostility.

From The Siege of Mafeking (1900) by Hamilton, J. Angus

In the months after, he surfaced only once, in a subdued video address to a Peking University forum in September 2025.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

At the scene on Tuesday morning, BBC News NI's Kelly Bonner said the area was subdued.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 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

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 tried to remain calm, but every time we passed a pew there’d be a ripple of noise, a barely subdued wave of gawker excitement.

From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx

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

“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