tempered
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"And the line he walks is razor-fine / Tempered strength is always tough / But he ain't gonna buckle under the weight of the badge."
From Fox News • Oct. 28, 2021
Tempered, as with the “Classical” Symphony with wit and sophistication, as well as Prokofiev’s sensation sense of theater, we’re hooked.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 16, 2021
Tempered chocolate will then be poured in 3½-pound increments into bowls where inclusions are added before it is then poured into slabs and broken into Joe’s signature shards.
From Seattle Times • May 23, 2019
Tempered chocolate cut into abstract shapes and sprinkled with edible gold dust is carefully positioned around and, like a seesaw, on top of the mousse — with chocolate caramel ganache as its fulcrum.
From Washington Post • Feb. 5, 2019
Tempered steel wires can be made of extraordinary strength.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 324, March 18, 1882 by Various