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tamp

[tamp] / tæmp /






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We could rearrange the portfolios differently to tamp down the risk, selecting companies that are not projected to grow so quickly, but the current market environment justifies the risk — and will reward it.

From MarketWatch Jul. 13, 2026

They are expected to provide clarity and tamp down unwarranted panic, not stoke conspiracy theories.

From Salon Jul. 13, 2026

That assessment dovetailed with a Goldman Sachs note from strategist Alvin So, who cautioned the South Korean banks are starting to curb consumer loans and access to leveraged trading accounts to tamp down elevated risks.

From Barron's Jun. 23, 2026

The Canadian province of Ontario passed the Putting Fans First Act to tamp down on resale prices.

From BBC Jun. 16, 2026

The former crested with fearsome rapidity; the latter sometimes took more than a century to tamp down, and it was followed by many aftershocks.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

As the lack of workforce tamps down business growth, fewer U.S.-born workers are hired as a result.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 18, 2026

“Seeing all the results tamps down their unrealistic expectations,” he said, as they conclude for themselves that they need to rethink their retirement timetable.

From MarketWatch Oct. 13, 2025

To understand how the body can fuel intense exercise or fight off disease without busting energy limits, Pontzer and his students are exploring how the body tamps down other activities.

From Science Magazine Feb. 16, 2022

“I think the fact that we’re in Zoom session kind of tamps down on activism,” said Rep. Jim Walsh, R-Aberdeen.

From Seattle Times Feb. 11, 2022

Then he pours in a basketful of ashes and tamps them with the large rammer; then again and again he pours in ashes and tamps them with the rammer.

From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius

Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh, for his part, has emphasized that inflation must be tamped down, but he has declined to specify how exactly the central bank is likely to handle stubborn price increases.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 14, 2026

Vance tamped down expectations before leaving Washington on Friday morning.

From BBC Apr. 10, 2026

While homeowners who would have sold otherwise may choose to stay put at a time when home prices and mortgage rates have tamped down on demand, builders have no such luxury.

From Barron's Jan. 19, 2026

Also, experts say that last week’s rain tamped down the threat of fire, at least temporarily.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 21, 2025

When he looked back at her, the pain was tamped down into something hammered and hard, locked behind his eyes.

From "Pet" by Akwaeke Emezi

Travel + Leisure’s executives spent much of their investor call last week tamping down concerns about consumer wariness and creditworthiness.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 28, 2026

That can work its way into the housing market by shrinking buyers’ budgets and tamping down on home-price growth.

From Barron's Mar. 30, 2026

Interventionists are still doing what they’ve always done: preventing retaliatory violence by tamping down rumors and connecting gang members with social services — all while grappling with the traumas of their past lives.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 1, 2024

Another is tamping down the expression of PKA.

From Science Daily Jun. 18, 2024

This is what an audience of doctors looks like when Phineas arrives in Boston in January 1850, tamping iron in hand.

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman




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