- comparative of damp.
damper
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Along with a negative reaction to results from chip maker Advanced Micro Devices, that has put a damper on tech stocks in early trading.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
Optical stocks have emerged as a bountiful play on the artificial-intelligence trade, but Friday’s selloff is putting a damper on that momentum.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 26, 2026
If this World Cup has been marred by astronomical ticket prices, that hasn’t put a damper on the tournament in the Pacific Northwest.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026
"I think it really put a damper on all the watch parties," he said.
From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2026
He was in the floor-covering business in Houston, but high interest rates kind of put a damper on that.
From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger
Carbon-ceramic brakes and magnetic adaptive dampers come as standard equipment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 18, 2025
CFM said the majority of parts involved are "non-serialized items like bolts, nuts, washers, dampers, seals and bushings".
From Reuters ● Oct. 5, 2023
By Season 3, he’s shaken off his dampers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2023
Components such as dampers, which act like shock absorbers as the building sways to and fro, and rubber bearings, which are fitted underneath a building and absorb the energy of a quake, can be added.
From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2023
So Debussy’s hanging chords, with the dampers kept away from the strings, represented a kind of return to nature, a move away from the more artificial sound of block chords.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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