Example Sentences

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What’s difficult is subduing the inclination to simply expect him to do it all the time.

From Golf Digest • Jul. 29, 2018

Canada remains one of the world's last frontiers, but it is subduing nature with the tools of modern technology rather than oxcarts and covered wagons.

From Time Magazine Archive