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Conservative leadership contender Kemi Badenoch has said she will tone down her approach – after some of her colleagues suggested she can be rude.

From BBC • Oct. 28, 2024

Asian stocks edged up on Monday on expectations that the Fed will tone down its expected rate hikes after this week's meeting.

From Reuters • Oct. 31, 2022

Janice, halfheartedly gaslighting her, hopes that Eliza will tone it down.

From New York Times • Nov. 8, 2017

It is unlikely he will tone down that approach at the Oscars.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 21, 2015

Manners will tone down in the West, as they have in the East, and in twenty years the Thunderer and the Avalanche will give place to the Times and the Tribune.

From Jonathan and His Continent Rambles Through American Society by Allyn, Jack