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Recent Examples of tempered
Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 18 May 2025
The set includes two chairs with padding and a compact coffee table with a tempered glass surface.
—Isabel Garcia, People.com, 30 Mar. 2025
The standard model comes with a tempered glass screen, stainless steel case, and a 20mm silicone sport band.
—Victoria Song, The Verge, 7 Jan. 2025
The three-tier shelf holds up to 12 bottles of wine, and the tempered glass shelves can hold all your favorite bar essentials.
—Savannah Smith, Rolling Stone, 12 Aug. 2024
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Check the label or manufacturer's instructions to make sure your glass is oven-safe, or made of tempered or borosilicate glass.
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The series Witsec follows a DOJ lawyer and a hardened mob hitman, both fed up with the corrupt institutions around them, who form a precarious alliance to convict criminal titans and save lives in the rogue origins of the Witness Protection Program.—
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For example, the military's ultra-hardened Advanced Extremely High Frequency satellites in geosynchronous orbit are designed to operate through an electromagnetic pulse and nuclear scintillation.—
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India’s own vast outsourcing industry has also depended on the work permits for decades, even though that has softened in recent years.—
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The complex’s two towers reinterpret Aman’s signature serenity in an urban setting, wrapped in warm timber and softened by 10 acres of botanical gardens and open space.—
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The most powerful are those toughened by formidable competitors.—
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Since the Supreme Court empowered local governments to crack down on homeless encampments in June, at least 40 jurisdictions around California have enacted new laws or toughened existing ones, according to the National Homelessness Law Center.—
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Such comparisons are too easily drawn, with too much self-righteousness, as though the guilt for what was done to the Jews could be lightened just a little by likening them to their own murderers.—
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The earlier layoff constituted 8% of staff, which will mean Lionsgate will have lightened its head count by 13% when this round of downsizing is done.—
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How does Obama go, in a pretty compressed number of years, from nearly an impossibility—the very act of his election seeming like a pivotal moment in the country to many people—to this by the end of his term?—
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This process pushes out sand using compressed air or steam to clean surfaces.—
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Today’s episode of The View was moderated by Joy Behar (Whoopi Goldberg has Fridays off) and included co-hosts Sunny Hostin, Sara Haines, Ana Navarro and Alyssa Farah Griffin.—
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Bridging the divide After dinner, attendees heard directly from the honorees during a panel discussion moderated by Pulitzer award-winning journalist and former Detroit Free Press editorial page editor Stephen Henderson.—
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The total Lakeside project totals about 850 acres, and has already mitigated land for its first phase of construction on about 360 acres.—
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The impact is limited to electronic customer check-in and baggage drop and can be mitigated with manual check-in operations.—
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The research team also highlighted that sodium chemistries are attractive, yet sodium solid electrolytes show limited room-temperature ionic conductivity.—
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However, if that is not an option, the sheriff's office suggests immediately getting inside a vehicle or a solid building with a roof once thunder is present.—
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“Tempered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tempered. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.
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