as in to temper
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Former Border Patrol commander-at-large Gregory Bovino had pushed back against internal efforts to temper his aggressive approach months before two fatal shootings in Minneapolis.—
David Hickey,
NBC news,
3 Feb. 2026 -
Those around Kraft told him to temper his expectations.—
Chad Graff,
New York Times,
2 Feb. 2026
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The system will form the backbone of a long-term partnership between FAU and D-Wave, which provides both annealing and gate-model quantum computing platforms.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
28 Jan. 2026
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The glass sheets spend 45 minutes in a machine called an annealing oven cooling to around 200 degrees.—
Christine Tannous,
IndyStar,
13 Nov. 2025
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The two women’s stories crystallize only gradually in the course of the feature, through the accretion of tiny details that, like the arrival of the hostess in the first shot, emerge amid a profusion of related distractions.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
4 Feb. 2026
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Then came the sentence that crystallized everything.—
Kaitlyn Gomez,
USA Today,
1 Feb. 2026
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The former slingshots between harmony and hysteria; the latter petrifies its beauty under a haze of ashy gray powder.—
Jazz Monroe,
Pitchfork,
28 Nov. 2025
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You'll be petrified by the violence inflicted upon boys who only wanted a chance to pull their families out of financial duress and have an opportunity at a comfortable life afforded to most of us sitting in our seats.—
Haadiza Ogwude,
The Enquirer,
13 Sep. 2025
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“Case-harden.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/case-harden. Accessed 7 Feb. 2026.
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