calm down
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“I think the earnings season is probably also from a fundamental sense, it’s a sort of let’s calm down the nerves a little bit,” he said.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026
“And then you calm down, you let the adrenaline flow through, and you get to fixing,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
Waiting would allow me to process the actual information in the insurance company’s message, and to calm down.
From Slate ● Sep. 27, 2026
“We’re going to rehab and let the inflammation calm down and get back to where it’s manageable this year and try to build back up and see where that puts us,” he said Tuesday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
The light in Arize’s eyes made Olanna smile; things would indeed calm down.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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