as in restraint
the checking of one's true feelings and impulses when dealing with others
learned that suppression of her angry feelings didn't necessarily make them go away
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Recent Examples of suppression
Hicks McTaggart, a reluctant private eye riding the industry’s transition from strikebreaking (labor suppression was once a major part of the private-detective business) to investigating cheating spouses, gets swept up in a case concerning the bombing of a bootlegger’s hooch wagon.
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Jack Denton, Vulture, 6 Oct. 2025
The fire suppression efforts involve five engines, one water tender, two dozers and one hand crew.
—Ca Wildfire Bot, Sacbee.com, 5 Oct. 2025
But the Democratic Party seems to prefer a selective vision of free speech, one that ignores the most glaring and visible current example of suppression.
—Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2025
The congressional investigation has also examined allegations of information suppression between intelligence agencies and between the executive branch and Congress.
—Nora Gamez Torres, Miami Herald, 2 Oct. 2025
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Jack Denton, Vulture, 6 Oct. 2025
The fire suppression efforts involve five engines, one water tender, two dozers and one hand crew.
—Ca Wildfire Bot, Sacbee.com, 5 Oct. 2025
But the Democratic Party seems to prefer a selective vision of free speech, one that ignores the most glaring and visible current example of suppression.
—Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2025
The congressional investigation has also examined allegations of information suppression between intelligence agencies and between the executive branch and Congress.
—Nora Gamez Torres, Miami Herald, 2 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for suppression
Noun
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The ship brings history and perhaps some English restraint to the world’s cruise capital.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
18 Oct. 2025
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D’Angelo understood the ways in which restraint can be infinitely more haunting—and more alluring—than aggression.—
Amanda Petrusich,
New Yorker,
15 Oct. 2025
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Made as Brazil’s dictatorship was losing its grip, these films confronted repression indirectly, turning sensuality into an act of defiance.—
Lise Pedersen,
Variety,
12 Oct. 2025
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Political scientist Ronald Krebs notes that domestic rights advocates rarely gain lasting momentum from the award, and may even face intensified repression.—
Shane Croucher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Oct. 2025
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The network also told the WGAE that the email responses are not the basis for discipline, discharge or layoffs.—
Ted Johnson,
Deadline,
14 Oct. 2025
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What started as the follow-up to D’Angelo’s 1995 platinum debut, Brown Sugar (written and recorded entirely by D’Angelo in his mother’s house in Richmond, Virginia), became five years of study at Soul University, complete with classes, pranks, gossip and equal amounts of discipline and laziness.—
Touré,
Rolling Stone,
14 Oct. 2025
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On-demand male contraception via acute inhibition of soluble adenylyl cyclase.—
Hannah Millington,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 Oct. 2025
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Maintaining the correct proportion of excitation to inhibition is critical for keeping the brain healthy and harmonious.—
Yasemin Saplakoglu,
Quanta Magazine,
29 Sep. 2025
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“Suppression.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/suppression. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.
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