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depress

[dih-pres] / dɪˈprɛs /




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Cisco, Jobless Data Depress Stocks U.S. stocks fell as a cautionary revenue view from Cisco Systems and an unexpected rise in weekly jobless claims fueled more concerns about the sustainability of the economic recovery.

From The Wall Street Journal • Aug. 12, 2010

"This man," Blake scrawled across the title page of his copy of Reynolds' printed lectures, the Discourses, "was Hired to Depress Art:--This is the opinion of Will Blake."

From Time Magazine Archive

Depress the shank of the hook against the skin in order to disengage the barb.

From Time Magazine Archive

Depress the key, the wheel turns a quarter turn and the tiller is set so as to steer to one side, say the left.

From Marvels of Scientific Invention An Interesting Account in Non-technical Language of the Invention of Guns, Torpedoes, Submarine Mines, Up-to-date Smelting, Freezing, Colour Photography, and many other recent Discoveries of Science by Corbin, Thomas W.

Depress them and up flies the fertilizing dust - once.

From Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors by Blanchan, Neltje




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