tamed

Example Sentences

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Investors are growing impatient with inflation that looks unlikely to be tamed on its own.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 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

But none of those tamed animals was actually domesticated—that is, selectively bred in captivity and genetically modified so as to become more useful to humans.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond