taming
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He played Shylock in a 2005 production of “The Merchant of Venice” and Gremio in “The Taming of the Shrew,” among many other roles.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 24, 2023
The mum-of-two, who lives near Birmingham, has written the food blog Taming Twins since 2013 and regularly shares family recipes and money-saving shopping hacks.
From BBC • Dec. 16, 2023
A mock rehearsal of “The Taming of the Shrew” devolves into a fight scene that further warps into an over-the-top tango.
From New York Times • Apr. 25, 2023
There’s Katharine Minola of “The Taming of the Shrew,” a sharp-tongued woman thought to have too much choler, the melancholic Ophelia of “Hamlet,” whose melancholia demonstrated an excess of black bile, and more.
From Washington Post • Nov. 7, 2022
Taming the tunnel interference was a “long sought technical prize” for the researchers, and in 1951 it earned John Stack and his colleagues another coveted Collier Trophy.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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