dampening

Example Sentences

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But a new report from Standard & Poor’s, “How Income Inequality is Dampening U.S. Economic Growth and Possible Ways to Change the Tide,” is important nonetheless.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 6, 2014

Dampening expectations to the extent that a 0-0 draw against Costa Rica was supposedly “something to cheer” is quite another.

From The Guardian • Jul. 14, 2014

Dampening D.C. football lust may be even tougher.

From Washington Post • Dec. 30, 2013

Dampening the brain’s activity interfered with its normal ability to filter out stimuli, allowing participants to see afresh what would ordinarily have been dismissed as irrelevant or as background noise.

From Time • Jan. 24, 2012

Dad had memorized that word ’cause right on the arm of the record player it said “V.D.L.A.I. Dampening, Patented”! “Come on, Daddy, turn it on, stop teasing!”

From "The Watsons Go to Birmingham" by Christopher Paul Curtis