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
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
Finding stardom at 40 — after a largely under-the-radar career of scene-stealing small roles — hasn’t tamed her wanderlust.
—Julian Sancton, HollywoodReporter, 6 Aug. 2025
This phrase was surely profound the first time someone used it—an image of a wild horse being tamed into a harness so all its power can be channeled into human hands.
—Helen Croydon, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
Finances improved, inflation was partly tamed, but Simitis was pushed to resign in 1987 when Papandreou, eyeing an upcoming election, announced a generous wages policy, undermining the goals of the austerity program.
—Demetris Nellas, Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2025
Verb
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
Finding stardom at 40 — after a largely under-the-radar career of scene-stealing small roles — hasn’t tamed her wanderlust.
—Julian Sancton, HollywoodReporter, 6 Aug. 2025
This phrase was surely profound the first time someone used it—an image of a wild horse being tamed into a harness so all its power can be channeled into human hands.
—Helen Croydon, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
Finances improved, inflation was partly tamed, but Simitis was pushed to resign in 1987 when Papandreou, eyeing an upcoming election, announced a generous wages policy, undermining the goals of the austerity program.
—Demetris Nellas, Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tamed
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Yet the train of military vehicles that appeared was remarkably tame, a cavalcade of superannuated weapons platforms serving as a reminder of the degree to which the military-industrial complex, glutted with money and pampered by Congress, has run out of new ideas.—
Seth Harp,
Harpers Magazine,
19 Sep. 2025
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Typically, the Fed hikes rates or keeps them steady to tame inflation.—
Bailey Schulz,
USA Today,
17 Sep. 2025
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And much more of that work is now AI controlled.—
Jordan Blum,
Fortune,
14 Sep. 2025
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Equipped with a 360-degree camera, it can be controlled by phone and patrols on its own, thanks to highly popular artificial intelligence or AI, with the user setting its path.—
PJ Green
September 14,
Kansas City Star,
14 Sep. 2025
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Anonymous tips forward to the FBI’s National Threat Operations Center reported threatening posts from a Discord profile that referenced plans for a future massacre and contained pictures of guns.—
Mia Cathell,
The Washington Examiner,
18 Sep. 2025
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If childhood-vaccination rates plummet, giving pathogens new targets in unprotected babies and young children, outbreaks won’t necessarily stay contained to those age groups.—
Jamie Ducharme,
The Atlantic,
17 Sep. 2025
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World Sevens is not regulated by FIFA, and its competitions do not compete against domestic league schedules, meaning participating players can maintain club obligations while playing in the tournaments.—
Jason Clinkscales,
Sportico.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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While the sector is heavily regulated, AI introduces new challenges—particularly around transparency in decision-making, transaction governance and regulatory compliance.—
Ravi Gedela,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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Adding flip-flops kept it less serious.—
Libby Page,
Vogue,
16 Sep. 2025
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For the second year in a row, this gritty paste has kept our lips softer, smoother, and flake-freer than any of its peers.—
Sophia Panych,
Allure,
16 Sep. 2025
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Aryna Sabalenka curbed her natural instincts to beat Amanda Anisimova 6-3, 7-6(3) in an absorbing women’s final, before Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner contested their third Grand Slam final in a row — a record in the Open Era of men’s tennis.—
The Athletic Tennis Staff,
New York Times,
8 Sep. 2025
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However, any gains in the equity market were curbed by further signs of weakness in the labor market.—
Sean Conlon,Sarah Min,
CNBC,
3 Sep. 2025
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Some plaintiffs allege they were restrained in straitjackets for as long as 16 hours.—
Robert Alexander,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Sep. 2025
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The woman and the infant, who wasn’t restrained, were thrown from the vehicle.—
Judith Kohler,
Denver Post,
12 Sep. 2025
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Air defenses downed or suppressed 52 drones, the air force said, with the missile and six drones impacting across three locations.—
David Brennan,
ABC News,
14 Sep. 2025
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Although Canon had mandated that the Cat's programmability be suppressed, the IAI team nevertheless maintained the ability to compute expressions, which Canon permitted as an extension of the editor metaphor.—
Cameron Kaiser,
ArsTechnica,
12 Sep. 2025
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“Tamed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tamed. Accessed 20 Sep. 2025.
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