tame

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With citizens focused on practical needs—taming inflation, restoring services and creating jobs—Rodríguez may be able to leverage U.S. economic assistance to achieve something Maduro never secured: legitimacy.

From The Wall Street Journal

Another, “Altars,” is a tame and ultimately bland song by Ms. Aitchison’s high standards, with a chorus—“One is not the loneliest number”—that draws on a pop cliché without interrogating or transforming it.

From The Wall Street Journal

Part of Goolsbee’s caution on inflation was that services inflation isn’t tamed, and core inflation—which he says is a steadier measure of price increases—came in at around a 3.6% annual rate.

From The Wall Street Journal

That came after a tame inflation report Friday that showed prices rose less than expected in January, a potentially encouraging sign for Fed officials considering future interest-rate cuts.

From MarketWatch

That came after a tame inflation report Friday that showed prices rose less than expected in January, a potentially encouraging sign for Fed officials considering future interest-rate cuts.

From MarketWatch