suppress
Example Sentences
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Suppress expressions of national pride and you risk reaping a curdled version of pride.
From Washington Post • Jan. 9, 2019
Hastings’s review deserves a place in the now-classic book by Joanna Russ, How to Suppress Women’s Writing.
From The Guardian • Feb. 6, 2016
An off-world feminist utopia confronts its own destruction in "When It Changed" by Joanna Russ, whose "How to Suppress Women's Writing" was a touchstone for second-wave feminists.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 6, 2015
Suppress your instinctive impatience, quiet the snarky voice in your head and allow yourself to recall, or perhaps to discover, the deep pleasures of sincerity.
From New York Times • Dec. 22, 2011
Suppress every rising of self-complacency, on account of what you do, and of the success which attends your efforts.
From A Practical Directory for Young Christian Females Being a Series of Letters from a Brother to a Younger Sister by Newcomb, Harvey
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The Giver
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