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Unlike in areas where mended supply chains or the cooling housing market are taming inflation, services inflation is particularly linked to the job market.

From Washington Post • Feb. 3, 2023

How new drugs are taming the Covid-19 virus.

From BBC • Feb. 17, 2022

You are taming me; and if he leaves me to you I may be more dutiful when he comes back.

From Heartsease, Or, the Brother's Wife by Yonge, Charlotte Mary