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
One reason for the suppression may be that China has a good deal of bad news to disappear.
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Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 26 Aug. 2025
Gerrymandering and voter suppression are threats to my rights and those of all Americans.
—Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2025
Both held jurisdiction over millions of public land-acres and neither agency had enough funding to keep pace with increasingly strict fire suppression policies.
—River Selby
august 25, Literary Hub, 25 Aug. 2025
What to Know On Sunday evening, officials at Rocky Mountain National Park confirmed the fire and shared a video of fire suppression efforts on X, formerly Twitter.
—Anna Skinner, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Aug. 2025
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Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 26 Aug. 2025
Gerrymandering and voter suppression are threats to my rights and those of all Americans.
—Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2025
Both held jurisdiction over millions of public land-acres and neither agency had enough funding to keep pace with increasingly strict fire suppression policies.
—River Selby
august 25, Literary Hub, 25 Aug. 2025
What to Know On Sunday evening, officials at Rocky Mountain National Park confirmed the fire and shared a video of fire suppression efforts on X, formerly Twitter.
—Anna Skinner, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for suppression
Noun
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Americans for Prosperity ― Ogles' former employer and that of many of his congressional staff ― is a political special interest group that advocates for limited government, free markets and fiscal restraint.—
Vivian Jones,
Nashville Tennessean,
5 Sep. 2025
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Enyedi has often made meditative cinema, but here her restraint in some sequences verges on suffocating.—
Leila Latif,
IndieWire,
5 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Alongside such military repression of the uprising, Israel also introduced a range of new bureaucratic methods aimed at controlling how Palestinians could move around the West Bank and Gaza Strip.—
Literary Hub
August 27,
Literary Hub,
27 Aug. 2025
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Maybe these trends can coexist, and China can continue rising globally while deepening its domestic repression.—
Michael Schuman,
The Atlantic,
26 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Battery dismantling requires skills that cross multiple disciplines.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
2 Sep. 2025
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Hufnagel, a 60-year-old who graduated from Barry University’s School of Law in 2005 and joined the Bar later that year, had an otherwise clean 10-year discipline history.—
David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
2 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Formal networking or making casual conversation with colleagues can sometimes feel awkward or forced, and many have welcomed the slight reduction to inhibitions that responsible use of alcohol affords.—
Melissa A. Wheeler,
Forbes.com,
26 Aug. 2025
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Lockwood’s lack of inhibition can lead to trouble.—
Alexandra Schwartz,
New Yorker,
25 Aug. 2025
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“Suppression.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/suppression. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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