as in to crack down (on)
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Stand Up to Cancer’s fundraising benefit show is putting down roots in Nashville for one night only.—
Larisha Paul,
Rolling Stone,
6 Aug. 2025 -
If Hamas released the Israeli hostages still in captivity and put down its weapons, the argument goes, the war would be over.—
Ruth Margalit,
New Yorker,
5 Aug. 2025
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Welcome to The Logoff: The Trump administration opened a new front in its war against Harvard this week, attempting to block all international students from attending the university — and swiftly getting slapped down by a federal judge.—
Cameron Peters,
Vox,
7 Dec. 2018
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That's the same thing that Alabama did after the 2020 Census, only to be slapped down by the Supreme Court two years ago when a narrow court majority ruled that the state had illegally diluted the Black vote in violation of the Voting Rights Act.—
Nina Totenberg,
NPR,
27 June 2025
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Much of Black Hat network management consists of tolerating sketchy user behaviors that network admins would want to quash at other events, which here usually involve attendees testing a technique taught in a session.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
9 Aug. 2025
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Libor case overturned The U.K. Supreme Court has quashed the conviction of Tom Hayes, the former UBS and Citi trader who was sent to prison for 11 years for manipulating the Libor interest rate (an interbank lending rate used as the benchmark for setting mortgage rates in the 2000s).—
Diane Brady,
Fortune,
23 July 2025
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There is, of course, one indisputable way to answer any doubters, to silence the critics and change the narrative.—
James McNicholas,
New York Times,
16 Aug. 2025
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As our nation grows more diverse, so will the efforts to suppress and silence these critical voices.—
Martin Luther King,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 Aug. 2025
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Very few advocated for the kind of theocracy that eventually emerged and went on to repress all non-Islamists.—
Arash Azizi,
The Atlantic,
5 Aug. 2025
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Jiang Zemin quietly arrived in Beijing in the middle of the protests to succeed Zhao, in part because party elites saw Jiang as someone who was ideologically palatable to all sides but a hard-liner on repressing protest.—
TYLER JOST,
Foreign Affairs,
4 Aug. 2025
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Asia-Pacific markets were subdued overnight as a result.—
Holly Ellyatt,
CNBC,
11 Aug. 2025
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The two also showed a demonstration of what a K9 takedown looks like, with Humphries acting as a target and K9 Bob subduing him.—
Richard Requena,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Aug. 2025
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When fixated on screens, our blink reflex is suppressed.—
Matt Fuchs,
Time,
4 Aug. 2025
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Four engines, one water tender, two dozers and two hand crews are working to suppress the fire.—
CA WILDFIRE BOT,
Sacbee.com,
4 Aug. 2025
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