stifled
Example Sentences
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The party’s longer leash for some creative industries is helping to boost cultural output that had been stifled by regulatory scrutiny in recent years.
He gave a single, loud, fevered cry, swiftly stifled.
From Literature
If, on the other hand, the endowment returns are stifled, the hiring of new administrators will be restrained, if not stopped entirely.
From MarketWatch
At the time, his pronouncement was met with blank faces and stifled laughter.
But critics, including hundreds of thousands of Hongkongers who have since left, say dissent has been stifled, and the city's freedoms severely curbed.
From BBC
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