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  • adjective Tamable.

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  • adjective Able to be tamed.

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  • adjective capable of being tamed

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Examples

  • That, and the colonization of the globe, meant that from an ever-present environment that was unpredictable and dangerous, nature began to be understandable and even tameable.

    Wunderkammern vs. Cabinets of Curiosity Heather McDougal 2008

  • That, and the colonization of the globe, meant that from an ever-present environment that was unpredictable and dangerous, nature began to be understandable and even tameable.

    Archive 2008-01-01 Heather McDougal 2008

  • She, like Moyo, describes the Bank as the center of a barely tameable "aid industry" in which half a million employees rely on aid for their salaries.

    Jake Whitney: Betraying the Tribe: Michela Wrong and the Foundations of African Corruption 2009

  • Moving characters into nature from the controlled conditions of urban life often means that they are more wild, less tameable, and outside the usual order of things.

    A Complete And Utter Spoiler Of Terrence Malick's 1973 "Badlands" 2008

  • Moving characters into nature from the controlled conditions of urban life often means that they are more wild, less tameable, and outside the usual order of things.

    Archive 2008-02-01 2008

  • The garden is a wild thing, but tameable, sort of.

    Reposting of New Design-Part One-Why? « Fairegarden 2008

  • Some present results; a tree, a quail, a rock, a hawk rousing one's mind from safety and tameable illness to beautiful comprehension in the form of a hunch as patience directs the finishing line is a trail of feathers to brush.

    Helen's Poems 2006

  • Brother Michael's hortatory letters from his deathbed, a gold locket containing a spray of Aunt Imelda's un tameable mop of white hair, a folder of personal correspondence including Lord Brinkley's letter to me and his Christmas cards, and the sturdy cloth shoulder-bag that had carried home the ingredients for my coq au vin.

    The mission song Le Carre, John, 1931- 2006

  • To these I added my father's life-stained missal, Brother Michael's hortatory letters from his deathbed, a gold locket containing a spray of Aunt Imelda's un tameable mop of white hair, a folder of personal correspondence including Lord Brinkley's letter to me and his Christmas cards, and the sturdy cloth shoulder-bag that had carried home the ingredients for my coq au vin.

    the mission song Le Carre, John, 1931- 2006

  • Some present results; a tree, a quail, a rock, a hawk rousing one's mind from safety and tameable illness to beautiful comprehension in the form of a hunch as patience directs the finishing line is a trail of feathers to brush.

    Archive 2006-05-01 2006

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