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As Ajoy and Onishi explained, they instead squelch their doubts and fall in line.

From Salon ● Sep. 21, 2026

The disconnect shows how Tehran has managed to squelch traffic through the crucial energy chokepoint with relatively little military force, only a handful of drone and missile attacks on ships.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

In fact, both Black activists and congressional champions of Reconstruction understood that race still mattered, and that made it critical to give Congress broad powers to squelch efforts to suppress or cancel out Black votes.

From Slate ● Oct. 7, 2025

The policy “represents one of the most caustic, corrosive and chilling efforts to squelch the voice of this commission, the office of inspector general and the Sybil Brand Commission,” Johnson said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2025

He turned the squelch control down and listened for the hiss of static, but there was nothing.

From "The River" by Gary Paulsen

What crushes confidence is uncertainty that squelches investment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026

The firms have a stranglehold on the market that squelches competition, it adds.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 1, 2023

As she explained in a recent phone call, she was gobsmacked by the result, a dance track that mixes laser squelches, piano chords, a skittering beat and Croft’s wistful vocals.

From New York Times ● Oct. 26, 2022

Antiretroviral treatment squelches HIV reproduction but sensitive tests show that even with the most effective treatments, small populations of white blood cells studded with the CD4 receptor harbor HIV’s DNA in a latent state.

From Science Magazine ● Aug. 3, 2022

"If he tries to, and if it isn't what pleases other people, the Parliament or something squelches him."

From The Story Girl by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

In the past week, the council squelched progress on a deal to gradually open Hormuz.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

So far, the higher rates have softened but not squelched buyer demand in the spring home-buying season, he noted.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 26, 2026

Had there been better information, a more bounded threat, the arms race of the missile age might have been squelched before it took off.

From Slate ● Feb. 3, 2026

The fabled front was always understood to be window dressing veiling frustrations, squelched desires, and other malignancies.

From Salon ● Nov. 21, 2023

The ground squelched under Fist’s heavy feet, and his footprints filled with sludge.

From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer

To her, the shift in messaging, and the squelching of this routine announcement, is alarming.

From Salon ● Mar. 29, 2025

“I’m driving a 300-mile loop today,” she says, squelching tears.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 8, 2024

But when Ms Helliar visited the flat, she found the carpets were still squelching underfoot and there was a heavy smell of mould.

From BBC ● Dec. 2, 2023

Wednesday to shovel mud out from under the cars that had been mired along Fredonia Drive, their boots slipping and squelching in the thick sludge that still stood a few feet high in some areas.

From New York Times ● Jan. 11, 2023

The only sound was the squelching of their feet as they plodded on.

From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda