as in to temper
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As Elon Musk, Trump fight on Twitter, here's a look back at SpaceX CEO's visits to Mar-a-Lago Trump has seemingly tried to temper his public comments about Musk, wishing his companies well.—
Bart Jansen,
USA Today,
8 June 2025 -
Moving quickly, slowly pour the hot sugar mixture, a ¼ cup at a time, into the sugar-egg mixture while whisking by hand continuously to temper the eggs.—
Alana Al-Hatlani,
Southern Living,
6 June 2025
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Workable quantum solutions that make use of annealing systems are now in use.—
Chuck Brooks,
Forbes,
22 Feb. 2025
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These services provide access to advanced quantum computing technologies, including annealing quantum computers with over 5,000 qubits and quantum-classical hybrid solvers capable of tackling complex problems involving up to one million variables.—
Trefis Team,
Forbes,
18 Dec. 2024
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Perhaps no other issue has crystallized criticism of Trump’s immigration agenda like the deportation of Venezuelan nationals to El Salvador.—
Eric Cortellessa,
Time,
10 June 2025
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This model crystallized in the late twentieth century, with the neurologist Oliver Sacks and a pair of Yale surgeons, Sherwin B. Nuland and Richard Selzer.—
Danielle Ofri,
New Yorker,
7 June 2025
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Nearly every day brings a fresh breach of what were once thought to be the rules, moves that have thrilled his insurgent supporters and petrified his nervous opponents.—
Peter Baker,
New York Times,
30 Apr. 2025
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He was petrified by the thought of dying of cancer or some other disease whose senselessness disgusted him.—
Ian Buruma,
The New Yorker,
6 Jan. 2025
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“Case-harden.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/case-harden. Accessed 14 Jun. 2025.
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