Ben Carson

One of the reasons surgeons have so much trouble separating Siamese twins is that nobody gets to do many of them. On the table, the anatomy is so different from normal, that you're constantly trying to figure out, 'Can I cut this? Does this wire lead to what?' It's like trying to defuse a bomb.

American Scientist

Billy Gardell

The quickest way to defuse fear or insecurity or anger is usually humor. I think comics figure that out quickly, and, once you figure it out, you think, 'Hey, if I can do this and get paid, that would be kind of cool.

American Comedian

Josh Gondelman

Especially when I'm heckled, that's a sticky situation because I don't defuse it... I really envy guys who have a grittier onstage presence and can really go after someone. I used to teach preschool.

American Author

William C. Kirby

The PRC is the big brother in this relationship, and it has the capacity to be generous to Taiwan on this issue in a manner that might do much to defuse that issue internally in Taiwan.

Chinese Educator

Matthew Perry

When I was younger, I used humour as a tool to avoid getting too serious with people - if there was deep emotional stuff going on, then I would crack a joke to defuse the situation.

Actor

Dan Hill

I'm an intense guy. I run 10 miles a day, which helps alleviate my intensity. Also, singing helps defuse my intensity. Playing the piano helps, and writing helps.

Canadian Musician

James Merrill

Knowing some Greek helped defuse forbidding words - not that I counted much on using them. You'll find only trace elements of this language in the poem.

American Poet

Frances Beinecke

Strong limits on carbon pollution will save Americans money, create jobs, improve our health, and help defuse climate change.

American Activist

Jack Whitehall

If I'm in an uncomfortable situation, I think I can say something funny to defuse it. Sometimes you can't.

British Comedian

Brad Paisley

I defuse everything I can with it. Humor is such a great shield.

American Musician

Used when someone prevents a disagreement or fight from getting worse.

Calm in Conflict

Emphasizes the action taken to calmly resolve a heated situation.

Conflict Resolution

It’s often used metaphorically, not involving actual dangerous situations.

Not Literal

Refers to making an explosive device harmless by removing or stopping the fuse.

Safety First

Implies urgent action is taken to prevent a potential explosion or disaster.

Immediate Danger

Used for situations where feelings could be explosive if not handled well.

Emotionally Charged

Focuses on lessening the strength or impact of something negative.

Subdue the Intensity

Stresses on avoiding an increase in severity or hostility.

Prevent Escalation

 think there's a lot of people in the intelligence community a lot of people will deal with this work in general think it's almost inevitable unless we do certain things to really to really try to defuse the risk like better interdiction better prevention better fixing in a better screening of cargo

Surviving a nuclear...

 silence them, keep them away. I'm afraid that this whole generation of young people, if their introduction to politics involves a lot of disgust, they're not going to want to be involved in politics as they get older. So how do we deal with that? Disgust. How do you defuse disgust?

Can a divided America...

 East Germany tried to defuse tension by making travel permits easier to obtain. But the announcement brought thousands of East Berliners to the border crossing points in the wall, forcing the surprised guards to open the gates immediately. Rejoicing crowds poured into West Berlin

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 support them they're the ones leading the negotiation so inevitably if you have them shape their negotiation strategy or give them advice you will push them to take some radical decisions or radical positions so negotiations I assume can get tense how defuse that

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 Iranian eggplant lover it's a market improvement now the next rule of thumb is don't be afraid to talk about politics okay politics are the burqa clad elephant in the room you have to talk about them to defuse the tension all right so I wrote

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 the videos and so therefore defuse potentially volatile situations so there was a shift from relying only on punishment to mindfully using peaceful conciliation in this in this situation probably the most remarkable result was

Bringing forests into...

 Geographic Society has been organized to increase and defuse Geographic knowledge and a magazine has been determined upon as one means as one means of accomplishing these purposes this is the important line we need to all pay

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 Bacteria have to deal with viruses in their environment, and we can think about a viral infection like a ticking time bomb -- a bacterium has only a few minutes to defuse the bomb before it gets destroyed.

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 zen-like thing to do to learn how to stay composed in the middle of chaos to learn how to communicate in a way that will defuse a potentially violent situation very important in umpiring how

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 The gossipy banter can sound to scientists like sentences with words or even names for each other. Most agree it's often used to defuse tension.

Defuse