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But American became an outlier after other carriers managed to tamp down on the practice.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

As the search continued for the 86 people presumed missing, coast guard, military personnel and local responders were working to tamp down the thick smoke billowing from the ferry.

From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026

Alex Clark, a popular podcast host in the Turning Point USA network, has also been struggling to tamp down her anger over this.

From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026

He said the company was spending $1 million a day to get rid of the food, haul it to landfills and tamp down odors.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

But Phineas and his assistant have done this a thousand times—pour the powder, set the fuse, pour the sand, tamp the sand plug, shout a warning, light the fuse, and run like mad.

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman

As the lack of workforce tamps down business growth, fewer U.S.-born workers are hired as a result.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 18, 2026

“Seeing all the results tamps down their unrealistic expectations,” he said, as they conclude for themselves that they need to rethink their retirement timetable.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2025

“I wasn’t on the side of the infringers. I just thought that copyright is too rigid, it lasts too long, it tamps down creativity.”

From New York Times ● Jan. 13, 2024

“I think the fact that we’re in Zoom session kind of tamps down on activism,” said Rep. Jim Walsh, R-Aberdeen.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 11, 2022

As soon as she has finished laying her eggs, Mother Turtle carefully scrapes this dirt back over them and tamps it down, much as a foundryman tamps the sand in a mould.

From The Adventures of a Grain of Dust by Hallam Hawksworth

A mission in southern Iraq had tamped down tribal warfare and insurgency without bloodshed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh, for his part, has emphasized that inflation must be tamped down, but he has declined to specify how exactly the central bank is likely to handle stubborn price increases.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

But mostly they tamped down speculation about a rift in their partnership.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 25, 2026

Vance tamped down expectations before leaving Washington on Friday morning.

From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2026

When he looked back at her, the pain was tamped down into something hammered and hard, locked behind his eyes.

From "Pet" by Akwaeke Emezi

The town has been bullish in preserving its way of life, including attempting to remove an unpermitted art installation on a rancher’s property and tamping down on noisy jets at a regional airport.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

In its obituary, the William F. Buckley-founded National Review praised the former secretary of state as a man who spent his life tamping down turmoil.

From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2026

Travel + Leisure’s executives spent much of their investor call last week tamping down concerns about consumer wariness and creditworthiness.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026

That can work its way into the housing market by shrinking buyers’ budgets and tamping down on home-price growth.

From Barron's ● Mar. 30, 2026

The real one tapers, but the electronic one is represented as a cylinder as big around as the fat end of the tamping iron.

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman