temper

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

That helped temper expectations that higher rates would be necessary to tackle inflation caused by rising oil prices stemming from the U.S.-Iran conflict.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

A soft reading could temper hike worries but an outsized figure would likely ramp up bets on an increase in borrowing costs.

From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026

“That said, volatility in user growth due to external factors is likely to temper some excitement on the shares in the near term.”

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026

I felt my temper go from a simmer to a low boil, just like that.

From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan

“A loss of the incumbent’s trifecta tempers fiscal expectations, leading to a post-election rally in Treasuries,” the strategists wrote in a recent note.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026

"Their last meeting is what calmed tempers," she said.

From Barron's ● Jun. 9, 2026

A lesser preparation this time around tempers enthusiasm, as does the record of horses that have failed to complete on previous attempts in this race.

From BBC ● Apr. 9, 2026

Wilson, who has a personal relationship with Hegseth that likely tempers his typical inflammatory rhetoric, was more delicate.

From Salon ● Mar. 13, 2026

By the time she had clambered back into the car, they were running very late, and tempers were running high.

From "Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets" by J. K. Rowling

Stocks rose Friday and government yields held their losses after comments from top Federal Reserve officials tempered fears that the central bank would hike interest rates at its meeting this month.

From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026

The leadership announcement came as Klarna tempered its outlook for the year, even as it swung to a profit and logged higher revenue in the second quarter, sending shares tumbling in premarket trading.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

Asian stocks mostly rose on Monday following a retreat on Wall Street as investors assessed fresh data that tempered expectations for a US interest rate hike but indicated weakness in the world's top economy.

From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026

U.S. stocks fell after weak retail sales data tempered enthusiasm about the artificial-intelligence boom that has driven major indexes to record highs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

It could be beaten like copper, and polished like glass; and the Dwarves could make of it a metal, light and yet harder than tempered steel.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

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

Biogen lowered its earnings guidance and projected weaker revenue for 2026, tempering the impact of a first-quarter rise in both sales and profit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026

He liked traveling so much he wanted to get started early, and early for Charley is the first tempering of darkness with the dawn.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck