tame
adjective
changed from the wild or savage state; domesticated.
is taming
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present progressiveof tame (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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While Fed officials have viewed the energy-driven drop in inflation as transitory, a strong dollar is taming underlying price pressures, which could cause them some discomfort.
From Reuters ● Jan. 16, 2015
Central bank Governor Miroslav Singer said on Jan. 26 inflation risks exist in the economy, although the strengthening koruna is taming upward pressures on consumer prices.
From BusinessWeek ● Feb. 2, 2011
Some observers say the proposals are just a way to tame capitalism and while Professor Ruggie says that is not a bad description, he believes it is taming it it for its own sustainability.
From BBC ● Jan. 25, 2011
Time is taming my colt, you see, and I shall yet be proud of him, whether he makes a pack-horse of himself to carry help to the starving or goes to ploughing as Pegasus did.'
From Jo's Boys by Louisa May Alcott
Where are these hunters now? gone swiftly away, borne like autumn's leaves, upon the irrepressible flood of enterprise and intelligence which is taming the wilderness with a rapidity Europe has yet no adequate appreciation of.
From Impressions of America During The Years 1833, 1834, and 1835. In Two Volumes, Volume II. by Tyrone Power
