as in to temper
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Trade deals, such as with the UK and a tentative truce with China, have tempered these concerns.—
Sasha Rogelberg,
Fortune,
18 June 2025 -
Product Details: Material: Aluminum and tempered glass | Size: 20 x 5 x 26 in.—
Belle DuChene,
Better Homes & Gardens,
13 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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The full scope of the nightmare began to crystallize even as the chief learned how the instincts of a Brooklyn Park sergeant put the police on a collision course with Vance Boelter, the man accused of assassinating the Hortmans after shooting a state senator and his wife, at a critical moment.—
Danya Gainor,
CNN Money,
18 June 2025
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Since then, his improvement seems to have crystallized.—
Rohan Nadkarni,
NBC news,
17 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 4 Jul. 2025.
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