temper
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Sunny skies will gradually temper the chill, and while most of England and Wales will stay sunny and dry on Thursday strengthening winds will bring increasing cloud to north-western parts of the UK.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
Children can, at times, sense their parents’ trauma surfacing in seemingly unrelated interactions, when Mom loses her temper or Dad goes silent.
From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2026
Friday's consumer price index data will "either exacerbate or temper" market concerns about a Fed interest rate hike, O'Hare said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026
And his fiery temper, igniting at every possible moment with his older and more accommodating bandmates, turns this snapshot of history into genuine tragedy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
And for twelve years, I’ve done a great job of keeping track of my temper.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
It’s not like furniture or jewelry or cars; it comes entangled with thin skins, volatile tempers, melodrama galore—our whole business model is built on emotion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
She says his calm sensibility tempers her impulsiveness and stress.
From BBC ● Apr. 25, 2026
This mix tempers volatility more than an all-equity portfolio.
From Barron's ● Mar. 18, 2026
Wilson, who has a personal relationship with Hegseth that likely tempers his typical inflammatory rhetoric, was more delicate.
From Salon ● Mar. 13, 2026
The malice and bad tempers from which other people had to take holidays never afflicted him.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
A rally in artificial-intelligence stocks was tempered by the intensifying rout in government bonds in early European trade, as investors balanced AI enthusiasm with an increasingly gloomy macroeconomic picture.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
Yet, the gains are tempered by some serious challenges.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
Oil futures fell, with market concerns about Saudi Arabia supply disruptions tempered by expectations that some flows could soon be restored through the kingdom’s damaged East-West Pipeline.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
The two main contracts Brent and West Texas Intermediate pared their gains Wednesday and on Thursday they edged lower, though news of fresh US attacks tempered the selling.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
These great ideas are tempered by another, perhaps still greater.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
Lowe’s rose 2% despite tempering its full-year outlook, citing cooling demand for large home renovation projects.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
The L.A. market “faces several challenges that are tempering hotel performance expectations,” said Ralph Posner, chief communications officer for the American Hotel and Lodging Assn.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2026
Xi said at the time that the army had "undergone revolutionary tempering in the fight against corruption".
From BBC ● May 7, 2026
The macro signal isn’t aligned, tempering the bullish case.
From Barron's ● May 7, 2026
Like a true gentlemouse he believed in tempering triumph with mercy.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
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