tamed

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Senators from both parties are likely to press him on how he squares that vision with an economy where inflation hasn’t yet been fully tamed.

From Barron's • Apr. 14, 2026

Amen Corner was tamed, and McIlroy was on the home straight.

From BBC • Apr. 12, 2026

Cities are squalid crime hives that need to be tamed or abandoned in the Sheridanverse, whereas small towns and Western vistas are quaint canvases fertile with possibility.

From Salon • Mar. 23, 2026

Sondheim’s were instead tamed by his art, Okrent suggests, which shaped his “textured, contradictory, troubling, and gratifying life.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2026

His mind skated to a consideration of a tamed town where savagery could not set foot.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding