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adjective

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verb

present participle of subdue
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Noun
  • Of course, by the end of the 1930s, the Nazi conquest of Europe had driven a dramatic swing in U.S. public opinion away from Borah’s isolationist daydream.
    Mitch McConnell, Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2024
  • Dating work on the pottery nuclei revealed that most of them probably also date to the Hellenistic period, or the later Roman to Byzantine periods, which spanned from 63 B.C. until the early Islamic conquests of the 7th century A.D.
    Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Mineral formulas also tend to be fragrance-free, noncomedogenic, and noninflammatory, says Dr. Engelman.
    Brigitt Earley, Glamour, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Burgum, 67 years old and known for a casual style and noninflammatory rhetoric, was never a significant presence in the race.
    John McCormick, WSJ, 5 Dec. 2023
Adjective
  • Schmidt’s unemotional and seemingly effortless style of play did not sit well with the fans.
    John Perrotto, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
  • Limit your responses to concrete, unemotional facts while maintaining a professional, neutral attitude.
    Veronica Cristino, Vogue, 5 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • The shot-stopper was a cornerstone of the all-conquering Manchester United side built by Ferguson.
    Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 10 Dec. 2024
  • However, the arrival of AI conquering our personal and professional lives like never before can be overwhelming.
    Rajal C., Forbes, 25 Nov. 2024
Verb
  • In this way, Bon upends conventional thought to ask what if concrete infrastructure supports nature rather than suppressing it?
    Tom Teicholz, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
  • This legislation would ensure defendants can quickly end meritless, speech-suppressing lawsuits in federal court and recover their legal costs.
    Jay Adkisson, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Its battery pack promised to take you about as far as the gas tank on a 450, for up to six hours of trail riding, and Stark Future, the Spanish company behind this electric fire-breather seemed uninterested in anything short of world domination.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Hollywood seems to be shifting away from the superhero industry, following decades of reliable box-office domination, but the next trend has not yet emerged.
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 9 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • For a team that has always fielded rosters with consequential MLB players, the team’s postseason track record is unimpressive.
    Bernie Pleskoff, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
  • Profitability has usually been unimpressive until recently.
    John Dorfman, Forbes, 2 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • After mastering street skating in Brazil’s local circuits, Bufoni became a six-time X Games Gold Medalist, a Street League Skateboarding (SLS) Super Crown Champion, and an Olympian for Brazil.
    Andy Frye, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
  • Researchers found in preliminary results that AI was still far from mastering the game.
    Jason Fields, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024
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