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The best way to defuse my mother is to talk about food.

And he is also great at defusing a bad situation.

It's far better to defuse the problem at the start.

But I thought it was important to defuse everything around here.

There are three ways for the President to defuse it.

"Is there nothing else we can do to defuse the situation?"

Eventually the police were called to defuse the situation, she said.

They were trying to defuse the situation before it got out of hand.

"Why did you bring us down if not to defuse things?"

That was why the present situation had to be defused.

We must act to defuse this situation before it gets out of hand.

The last thing they want to do is defuse his anger.

It sounds as if they're both trying to defuse the situation.

"Someone who knows what he's doing will have to defuse it."

State officials say they have worked hard to defuse opposition from business groups.

They told me he was not trying to defuse a bomb.

Once the situation was defused, he'd stayed on for three months.

But to defuse the situation, the king used humor instead.

"I just wish there was some way we could defuse her."

"I was just trying to defuse the pressure that has been put on us," he said.

Perhaps he could help her think of a way to defuse that dangerous book.

Other recent presidents had their own way of defusing questions.

This could go a long way towards defusing the issue.

Leaders of both countries tried today to defuse the incident.

At the same time, attempts to defuse the situation continued.