How to Use suppression in a Sentence

suppression

noun
  • The leap came from noise suppression.
    Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Our founders showed us how to fight tyranny and suppression of speech.
    Letters To The Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 July 2025
  • These men have strong shot and goal suppression numbers.
    Allan Mitchell, New York Times, 26 June 2026
  • Picking up an orb while in max power will now give it suppression.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes, 23 Apr. 2022
  • The fire suppression system has been out of service since that date.
    Suzanne Le Mignot, CBS News, 18 Dec. 2025
  • This cleared the way for the current wave of voter suppression.
    Victor Ray, CNN, 15 Jan. 2022
  • In my opinion, this is a form of voter suppression.
    Linh Tat, Oc Register, 4 May 2026
  • In the past, this immune suppression was done with steroids like prednisone.
    Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 15 Aug. 2025
  • The suppression of storms comes not from the dust itself but from the dry desert air that carries it.
    Angie Dimichele, sun-sentinel.com, 4 Aug. 2021
  • Most of it flowed into a fire suppression line and sat there for six months, causing the line to sag.
    CBS News, 29 Sep. 2023
  • At the time, the cruise line said the water came from a break in the ship's fire suppression system.
    Colson Thayer, PEOPLE, 19 Jan. 2026
  • Newsom called the move an act of voter suppression.
    David Zimmermann, The Washington Examiner, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Their views about government suppression of speech are less clear.
    Taylor Seely, AZCentral.com, 20 Sep. 2025
  • Fire crews had to shuttle water to the scene to keep up with suppression efforts.
    Cbs News Atlanta Digital Team, CBS News, 16 June 2026
  • But the ancient Greeks may have had a point with their suppression of ​​technē after all.
    Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Most of this fuel spilled into a fire suppression line and sat there for six months, causing the line to sag.
    Audrey McAvoy, Anchorage Daily News, 1 July 2022
  • The post also states that fire suppression resources will be stationed on-site.
    Jennifer McRae, CBS News, 1 July 2026
  • The fire suppression efforts involved four engines and two hand crews.
    Ca Wildfire Bot, Sacbee.com, 3 June 2025
  • John Jones knows about voter suppression.
    John E. Jones Iii, The Conversation, 22 Apr. 2026
  • What is fire suppression repair?
    Sean Campbell, Sacbee.com, 15 June 2026
  • Instead, the report talks about the merits of fire suppression.
    Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Feb. 2022
  • The fight against vote suppression and election sabotage is one of the biggest moral fights of our era.
    The New Republic, 1 Apr. 2022
  • The book is most powerful as a depiction of the agony of suppression.
    Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2024
  • But every act of historical suppression is bad news, for all of us.
    Jonathan Zimmerman, Twin Cities, 21 Aug. 2025
  • The challenges to these votes tap a rich and productive vein of voter suppression.
    NBC News, 24 Nov. 2020
  • The scenes stood in stark contrast to the violent suppression last week of protests for women's rights.
    Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 12 Sep. 2021
  • Debug uses what's called the suppression method.
    Janet Loehrke, USA Today, 4 June 2026
  • The suppression of the Holocaust’s gay voices remains a stain that lingers on to this day.
    Andrea Carlo, Time, 7 Apr. 2021
  • Givens said the suppression of accounts is a thorny issue for tech companies.
    Catherine Herridge, Graham Kates, CBS News, 16 Mar. 2021
  • Democrats and voting rights advocates call it a clear act of voter suppression.
    Julie Carr Smyth, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2026

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