tamed

Example Sentences

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If housing inflation doesn’t cooperate, it leaves officials without much hope that inflationary pressures can be tamed in the near-term.

From Barron's • May 11, 2026

Amen Corner was tamed, and McIlroy was on the home straight.

From BBC • Apr. 12, 2026

Cities are squalid crime hives that need to be tamed or abandoned in the Sheridanverse, whereas small towns and Western vistas are quaint canvases fertile with possibility.

From Salon • Mar. 23, 2026

Sondheim’s were instead tamed by his art, Okrent suggests, which shaped his “textured, contradictory, troubling, and gratifying life.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2026

‘And would you have your proud folk say of you: “There goes a lord who tamed a wild shieldmaiden of the North!

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien