suppress

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as in to swallow
to refrain from openly showing or uttering he managed to suppress a scream at the sight of the dead mouse suppressed her anger

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as in to halt
to hold back the normal growth of pruning helps suppress buds at the ends of developed branches and encourages new growth elsewhere

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Recent Examples of suppress Public comments suggest that the FTC and the DOJ are considering 3 types of potential Section 1 violations: Agreements among platforms to suppress particular content (for example, articles on the Hunter Biden laptop). Alden Abbott, Forbes.com, 9 July 2025 Berries and their bioactive compounds have been shown to suppress the risk of various cancers, including prostate cancer. Brittany Poulson, People.com, 8 July 2025 Trump deployed National Guard troops on June 7 to suppress protests at federal buildings and during immigration raids, mobilizing approximately 4,000 National Guard members and 700 Marines in total. Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 July 2025 The researchers also found that camel milk suppressed CCL17, a chemokine (signaling protein) that attracts certain types of immune cells, particularly T cells, to inflammatory sites. New Atlas, 6 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for suppress
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Verb
  • Leave behind New York’s stifling policies and discover a state where your ambition can soar.
    Mike Dunleavy, New York Daily News, 14 July 2025
  • While luck will favor some and stifle others, here are a few tips on how join the first group: Be Loyal: Elite status with an airline can work wonders.
    Paula Conway, Forbes.com, 14 July 2025
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  • If contaminated floodwater is swallowed, or pollutes drinking water, this can lead to gastrointestinal illnesses such as stomach pain, diarrhea, nausea and vomiting.
    ByMary Kekatos, ABC News, 11 July 2025
  • Symptoms usually start 6 hours to 6 days after swallowing the bacteria.
    Matt Cannon, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 July 2025
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  • That plan would halt roughly $522 billion in investments, many of which are based in red states.
    Elena Moore, NPR, 1 July 2025
  • Environmental concerns about the airport’s impact on the Everglades halted plans to develop the facility further in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
    Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 1 July 2025
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  • One company helping Americans relocate to the Netherlands, GTFO Tours, reported a 200 percent increase in inquiries from U.S. nationals in the days following Trump's decision to deploy hundreds of National Guard troops to quell anti-deportation protests in Los Angeles last month.
    Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 July 2025
  • The community town hall did little to quell resident's concerns.
    David Ferrara, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
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  • Meanwhile, her makeup turned more matte with concealed under eyes like at The Blonds Fall 2014 show.
    India Espy-Jones, Essence, 11 July 2025
  • Speculation online has included allegations that the federal government was concealing information to shield powerful and prominent figures who were allegedly named in case records.
    Scott MacFarlane, CBS News, 11 July 2025
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  • More urgently, defunding and censoring science could have dramatically negative consequences for all Americans.
    Matt Motta, Scientific American, 10 July 2025
  • That’s something that archaeological reports released by the city in the past have routinely included without censoring.
    Andres Viglucci July 4, Miami Herald, 4 July 2025
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  • Stevens’s reflections on his years of service reveal what’s pulsing beneath his composure: the choice to look away from troubling secrets and repress personal desires.
    Mia Barzilay Freund, Vogue, 7 July 2025
  • They were also celebrated by millions of ordinary Indians who have been repressed by Modi’s Hindu nationalist policies.
    HARTOSH SINGH BAL, Foreign Affairs, 30 June 2025
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  • The best wrinkle creams on Amazon prove that drugstore prices don't diminish efficacy.
    Kiana Murden, Vogue, 8 July 2025
  • The Commanders’ potential move back to D.C. would also pull the team out of Landover, further diminishing Maryland’s stake in professional sports and federal investments.
    Heather Hunter, The Washington Examiner, 7 July 2025

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