as in to temper
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But the initial enthusiasm for the city’s stablecoin drive has been tempered by a cautious regulatory approach, keeping it from replicating the breakneck growth seen in the United States.—
John Liu,
CNN Money,
2 Sep. 2025 -
But if such factors tempered the public’s instinct to rush to the harshest judgments, the ordeal also revealed how the corporatization of sports betting had done little to snuff out a secretive underworld estimated to be responsible for $64 billion in illicit wagers annually.—
DAVID AMSDEN,
Rolling Stone,
29 Aug. 2025
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Engineers sparingly tried annealing hardware space, so Juno's experience could be instructive for future missions.—
Stephen Clark,
ArsTechnica,
12 Sep. 2025
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Some annealing quantum-type computers are already commercialized.—
Chuck Brooks,
Forbes.com,
1 Aug. 2025
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That vulnerability crystallizes in her scenes opposite French screen legend Daniel Auteuil, who plays her ex-husband, Gabriel.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
5 Sep. 2025
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With only a handful of the local elections yet to be decided, the will of the members is beginning to crystallize, though there is still more to unfold.—
Katie Campione,
Deadline,
4 Sep. 2025
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The only issue is his mother Laura (Wright), a woman who has lost a child once before and is petrified of a repeat.—
Lily Ford,
HollywoodReporter,
5 Sep. 2025
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So don’t go around being petrified of having your esophagus rupture someday.—
Bruce Y. Lee,
Forbes.com,
28 June 2025
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“Case-harden.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/case-harden. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.
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