suppression
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The result demonstrates that continuous-wave mechanical noise suppression can extend quantum coherence in real devices, suggesting that microscopic sound waves could become an important tool for building more reliable and compact quantum systems.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 2026
"Every basis point of artificial yield suppression is a subsidy to procrastination," he said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026
The local suppression of abolitionist mail persisted throughout the antebellum era during the administrations of Jackson’s eight successors, none of whom enforced the federal statute prohibiting detention of the mail.
From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2026
Abraham Mofokeng still carries the wounds of the bloody suppression of a protest in South Africa 66 years ago.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
The Martians of H. G. Wells and Orson Welles, preoccupied with the suppression of Bournemouth and Jersey City, never noticed until too late that their immunological defenses were unavailing against the microbes of Earth.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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These suppressions do not occur in a vacuum.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 27, 2018
The Forest Service and the Department of Interior can transfer money from other programs once their fire suppressions accounts have been depleted.
From US News ● May 5, 2015
They’re not in the interest of the story; they are suppressions of the story, ones that the filmmakers seemed to think they could get away with.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 5, 2014
And there were a remarkable range of those as well: dark pageboy, brown mullet, reddish bob — all heroic suppressions, in the cause of art, of her natural blondness.
From New York Times ● Feb. 20, 2010
He seems to carry the weight of those suppressions on his conscience.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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