tame
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Stocks overall saw a brutal selloff Friday, after a strong jobs report for May ignited fears that the Federal Reserve might be too late in raising interest rates to tame inflation.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 5, 2026
But this is exactly what kids get, and everything else Dudamel conducted over the weekend was, in some ways, tame by comparison.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2026
Nevertheless, cities trying to tame housing costs look to Austin.
From Barron's • May 31, 2026
According to legend, it took rough and rugged characters to tame the early American frontier: men like Daniel Boone, the trailblazer, or Mike Fink, the brawling river boatman.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026
He looked so sweet and harmless that I forgot sense and stuck my finger out to him, as if he were a tame bird.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
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