tame
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Despite weakness beneath the surface in the market, the VIX has been pretty tame recently.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 4, 2026
He had three chances in eight minutes - a tame shot, a clipped attempt and then the big one - played in by Gilmour but pulled wide.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026
There’s not enough tech in the world to tame the sea.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
The U.S. dollar ticked up against rivals after Richmond Federal Reserve President Tom Barkin warned a single rate hike might not be enough to tame inflation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
“For this lion is not the king of beasts! There is one greater than him. His abbot, Hubert the Good. Do you want to tame the lion? Go to his master!”
From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz
"Opting people in by default is not consent," a user said in one of the tamer responses to Twitch's announcement on X.
From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026
Looking ahead: “The catch-up consumer spending and inflation data for October and November paint a picture of robust consumer spending amid tamer inflation,” Kathy Bostjancic, Nationwide chief economist, said in a note to clients.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 22, 2026
Its energy plan last year unveiled a tamer goal: it wants nuclear power to provide 20% of its electricity needs by 2040.
From BBC ● Jan. 21, 2026
It’s why I dress like a lion tamer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 1, 2026
It is very apparent that, no, I did not use the frizz tamer that Tía bought me.
From "Merci Suárez Changes Gears" by Meg Medina
Probably the tamest of Harbaugh’s regular phrases, the coach’s final words in each pregame speech stick with Pipkins the most.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2024
From the lack of snow to the lack of cold, the ongoing winter stands out as one of the tamest in memory in Washington.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 14, 2023
Sunday’s Game 3, another anti-Marshall Ruy Lopez line, was the tamest of the match so far.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 30, 2021
Cats, by contrast, descend from the fiercely antisocial and territorial Near Eastern wildcat, and they largely domesticated themselves, as the tamest cats began to hang out and hunt rodents in early farming villages.
From Science Magazine ● May 9, 2019
I think that must have been the tamest interaction of all time.
From "Dumplin'" by Julie Murphy
“Humility,” Keane argues, “is a vital resource that strengthens the powerless and tames the powerful by questioning their claims to superiority.”
From Slate ● Jan. 2, 2026
“The Lowdown” tames Lee’s mania for his cause through the barely obscured current of hangdog defeat weakly powering his personal life.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2025
A quick blanch in boiling water tames the chiles’ heat but won’t affect their subtle fruity flavor.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 14, 2023
Those gains reversed Thursday as investors grappled with the realization the Fed might not be able to give the economy a soft landing that tames inflation while avoiding a recession.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 16, 2022
Nothing tames a man so quick as to see his woman and childer folk hungry—eh?
From Children of the Mist by Eden Phillpotts
The mutual affection between the player and Detroit, however, took center stage Friday, even as Skubal tamed the Tigers’ offense.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026
After a campaign over hundreds of years saw rivers tamed for commercial use, he urged a shift back "toward natural rivers featuring meandering branches and floodplains that retain water across the landscape".
From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026
The high inflation of the late 1970s had been tamed by two painful recessions in the early 1980s, and Greenspan saw his primary task as consolidating those gains.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
Although much of the series deals with trails blazed and frontiers tamed, a prime example of the show’s thesis-meets-synthesis is an episode on the rise of New York.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026
The day was warm, a little windy, and leaf shadows, supple emanations from the tree boughs that brushed the cell’s barred window, tantalized Perry’s tamed squirrel.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
Warsh made the case that taming inflation will most help the least well-off.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
On top of that, further rate hikes aimed at taming inflation also risk slowing down the economy.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026
For Bengio, taming AI's advance is "an international challenge, a bit like nuclear weapons are an international challenge."
From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026
The Kansas City Federal Reserve’s upcoming Jackson Hole symposium later this week will also be key for the dollar if Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh recommits to taming inflation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
Factions and splinter groups had for years prevented Rome from taming the eastern territories.
From "Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen" by Susan Blackaby
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