as in tame
changed from the wild state so as to become useful and obedient to humans
circus trainers work with tamed tigers and elephants
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as in controlled
to keep from exceeding a desirable degree or level (as of expression)
try to tame your language when you're in front of the kids
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Recent Examples of tamed
Lily Wohlner, Allure, 8 Oct. 2025
Tepper feared that if the Fed lowers rates while inflation hasn't been fully tamed, demand can pick up faster than supply, reigniting price pressures.
—Yun Li, CNBC, 18 Sep. 2025
However, also objectively, inflation has not been tamed.
—Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 14 Sep. 2025
Toward the end of last year, including after the election, hiring and investment picked up and so did sentiment – especially as inflation appeared to be getting tamed, Ron Hetrick, senior labor economist at Lightcast, told CNN.
—Alicia Wallace, CNN Money, 6 Sep. 2025
Kurtz hasn’t been tamed by pitching at any level of professional or collegiate baseball.
—Daniel R. Epstein, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
The gamble that antidemocrats could be tamed if they were granted power had failed spectacularly.
—Daniel Ziblatt, Foreign Affairs, 28 Aug. 2025
And thanks to the cream cheese and black beans in the filling, the heat gets tamed even more.
—Jasmine Smith, Southern Living, 26 Aug. 2025
Historian Terry Bouton has argued compellingly that most of the framers, landholding elites, deeply mistrusted the mass of American countrymen, and saw democracy as a wild, unruly stallion that needed to be tamed.
—Matthew Redmond
august 13, Literary Hub, 13 Aug. 2025
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But the real miracle was how effortlessly the ultra-lightweight formula tamed frizz in just a few swipes.
—Lily Wohlner, Allure, 8 Oct. 2025
Tepper feared that if the Fed lowers rates while inflation hasn't been fully tamed, demand can pick up faster than supply, reigniting price pressures.
—Yun Li, CNBC, 18 Sep. 2025
However, also objectively, inflation has not been tamed.
—Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 14 Sep. 2025
Toward the end of last year, including after the election, hiring and investment picked up and so did sentiment – especially as inflation appeared to be getting tamed, Ron Hetrick, senior labor economist at Lightcast, told CNN.
—Alicia Wallace, CNN Money, 6 Sep. 2025
Kurtz hasn’t been tamed by pitching at any level of professional or collegiate baseball.
—Daniel R. Epstein, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
The gamble that antidemocrats could be tamed if they were granted power had failed spectacularly.
—Daniel Ziblatt, Foreign Affairs, 28 Aug. 2025
And thanks to the cream cheese and black beans in the filling, the heat gets tamed even more.
—Jasmine Smith, Southern Living, 26 Aug. 2025
Historian Terry Bouton has argued compellingly that most of the framers, landholding elites, deeply mistrusted the mass of American countrymen, and saw democracy as a wild, unruly stallion that needed to be tamed.
—Matthew Redmond
august 13, Literary Hub, 13 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tamed
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While the colorway itself is relatively tame, the hundreds of rhinestone crystals that cover the traditionally leather upper are anything but.—
Riley Jones,
Footwear News,
14 Oct. 2025
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The Ducks split their season-igniting road trip with a tame effort in Seattle that came closer to spanning 20 minutes than 60 against the Kraken and then a robust exchange of blows with the Sharks in a 7-6 victory.—
Andrew Knoll,
Oc Register,
13 Oct. 2025
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The bombers remained in a part of Venezuela’s flight information region, or FIR, that is international airspace, but controlled by the country’s aviation authority.—
Natasha Bertrand,
CNN Money,
19 Oct. 2025
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Minnesota controlled the play on that man advantage and on a second one a short time later, but failed to double the lead.—
Jess Myers,
Twin Cities,
19 Oct. 2025
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The material contained on this site is intended to inform, entertain and educate the reader and in no way represents an inducement to gamble legally or illegally or any sort of professional advice.—
Matthew Glowicki,
Louisville Courier Journal,
22 Oct. 2025
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Imagine, though, that all the books ingested by LLM training sets only contained the information on the dust jackets.—
Reed Albergotti,
semafor.com,
22 Oct. 2025
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Essential oils are not regulated for safety and potency by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).—
Emily Brown,
Verywell Health,
21 Oct. 2025
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Advertisement Minimal protections for football’s youngest players Experts argue that youth football is the least regulated of all.—
Alana Semuels,
Time,
20 Oct. 2025
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Yes, if your lease states that a fine will be charged for windows that are kept open during the winter.—
Tamia Fowlkes,
jsonline.com,
20 Oct. 2025
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Potted hardy hibiscus can be overwintered indoors and kept at 55ºF with three hours of direct full sunlight a day.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
20 Oct. 2025
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Britain has in recent months been hit by US tariffs targeting key export sectors and now faces the prospect of its steel sales to the EU — a major market — being curbed.—
Prashant Rao,
semafor.com,
8 Oct. 2025
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Hamas' top leadership has been assassinated, its fighting capacity severely curbed in Gaza.—
Emily Feng,
NPR,
7 Oct. 2025
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The measure has since been watered down and now requires children between the ages of 8 to 16, starting in 2027, to pass a five-step test to be considered properly restrained by a seat belt.—
CalMatters,
Oc Register,
16 Oct. 2025
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Many of the building’s inhabitants, including children, were restrained and marched outside.—
Geraldo Cadava,
New Yorker,
16 Oct. 2025
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The President praised the speed with which this modest protest was suppressed.—
David Remnick,
New Yorker,
19 Oct. 2025
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The Secret Commonwealth is the condemnation of a world where imagination—not making things up, but a way of seeing, understanding, feeling the world—is suppressed by the dual forces of cold rationality and religious fundamentalisms that breed authoritarianism.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
17 Oct. 2025
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“Tamed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tamed. Accessed 25 Oct. 2025.
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