discourage
Example Sentences
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Regulations generally discourage private companies from taking on more than 2,000 shareholders of record.
However, CCS technology is not without critics, who warn it might discourage efforts to cut CO2 emissions.
From BBC
While currency depreciation and tariffs both discourage imports, a lower currency also boosts exports, without the uncertainty and distortions that tariffs entail.
Ms. Canaan further alleges that Ms. Rosemeyer aggressively discouraged her from filing a formal complaint.
They also argue that the AI-generated summaries discourage clicks to publishers' original pages, reducing traffic to their sites and in turn cutting their advertising revenue.
From Barron's
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