as in to temper
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Most significantly, a Medusa is free to temper whether her power terrifies, stuns, or slays her target.—
Julie Berry,
PEOPLE,
13 Sep. 2025 -
Try to temper your resentment by remembering that the lingering presence of the sandbox is not about you.—
R. Eric Thomas,
Denver Post,
12 Sep. 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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Ideas crystalize through wrestling.—
Curt Steinhorst,
Forbes.com,
19 Sep. 2025
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That Bearman now stands at the brink of a race ban for the same thing (his previous eight-point haul, it must be stressed, deserved) crystallized my argument.—
Alex Kalinauckas,
New York Times,
15 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 20 Sep. 2025.
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