stifles

present tense third-person singular of stifle

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of stifles That fear discourages innovation and stifles opportunity. Brad Rencher, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2025 In the TikTok video, Ella lies with her arms at her sides and stifles a giggle. Faith Karimi, CNN Money, 29 Aug. 2025 This stifles innovation as well as open communication. Dr. Cynthia J. Young, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025 Critics say the legislation stifles academic freedoms, strips faculty of due process rights and injects politics into curriculum decisions, possibly threatening programs such as those teaching issues around race and equality. Fousia Abdullahi, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stifles
Verb
  • What worked at ten employees strangles progress at one hundred.
    Brent Gleeson, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
  • At that point, both Hsiao-Lee’s life and our perspective open up toward something more hopeful, even if plenty of turmoil — including another unbearable scene in which Chiang nearly strangles Chuan to death — continues back home.
    Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • And how a democratic society responds to its leaders can make the difference between a free society and one in which a leader increasingly suppresses the voices, rights and will of the governed.
    Karrin Vasby Anderson, The Conversation, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The partner who suppresses becomes less visible in the relationship.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Hybrid-resilient architecture—local backups that can kick in like muscle memory when the cloud chokes.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • On the ground, there’s a war of grappling, chokes, and limb breaks, and Oliveira is one of the best to ever fight it.
    Jack Crosbie, Rolling Stone, 14 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Taroko Gorge, however, carves breathtaking grandeur from marble stone; a natural cathedral of cliffs, where suspension bridges sway above rapids and swallows dart through narrow canyons.
    Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Neurocysticercosis occurs after a person swallows pork tapeworm eggs, according to the CDC.
    Deirdre Bardolf, FOXNews.com, 9 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • But outside of the ring, Christy hides and represses her lesbianism and winds up marrying her trainer Jim Martin (Ben Foster), who manipulates and physically abuses her.
    Edward Segarra, USA Today, 13 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Just like particles behave differently when observed, your business suffocates under micromanagement.
    Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Rather than conjuring a mood of bracing inexorability, this linear focus only suffocates what might be an interesting debate, as a man of the modern world weighs his values against those of a woman raised in atavistic isolation.
    Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 7 Sep. 2025

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“Stifles.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stifles. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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