as in to crack down (on)
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So put down the car keys or place that sad can back in the fridge and whip up these easy, 2-ingredient biscuits instead.—
Josh Miller,
Southern Living,
15 Aug. 2025 -
Controversial figure The founder of the controversial military security firm Blackwater, Prince arrived in Haiti earlier this year promising to help the country put down the with the help of former special forces soldiers and military contractors from the United States, Colombia and other nations.—
Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
15 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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The judge quashed various defense attempts to contest the merits of the act, but that didn’t stop the trial from unfolding as a a proxy for larger issues.—
Randall Balmer,
Twin Cities,
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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The warming can leap back without something to suppress it.—
Chris Mooney,
CNN Money,
19 Aug. 2025
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The air force said Russia launched 270 drones and 10 missiles into Ukraine, of which 30 drones and six missiles were intercepted or suppressed.—
David Brennan,
ABC News,
19 Aug. 2025
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