suppression

Spenser arrived in Ireland in 1580, during the brutal suppression of the Second Desmond Rebellion, and became a beneficiary of the plantations, through which confiscated Irish lands were granted to English settlers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

The couple both immigrated to the U.S. in the shadow of the country’s one-child policy, a population suppression initiative.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

She started researching anger after suspecting her female clients' suppression of it was the root cause of some of their physical conditions.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

That unexpected suppression presents a challenge for a long-standing explanation called "nuclear shadowing," which has successfully accounted for earlier measurements.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 2026

All through the night, the woods had felt secretive, things had lurked and hovered, eyes had watched, there was something fearful in them, an air of suppression.

From "I'm the King of the Castle" by Susan Hill

I understood that just because something happened to me, it didn’t suspend the suppressions of time and the failures of memory and the most human of all errors, bureaucratic filing systems.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 4, 2020

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