smother

Example Sentences

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The challenge for policymakers, then, is to resist the temptation to smother AI with fear.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 10, 2025

Critics fear deep-sea mining will smother marine life with waste and the noise of heavy machinery will disrupt oceanic migrations.

From Barron's • Nov. 8, 2025

Rising land prices smother our ability to move, suppress fertility rates, stifle innovation, and hoover up resources that might be deployed elsewhere.

From Slate • Nov. 4, 2025

Aster’s modus operandi, holding strong following his first three features, is to smother the viewer, piling on so many narrative threads that it becomes difficult to claw free for a broader perspective.

From Salon • Jul. 20, 2025

He was pushing through a world of invisible pine sap that threatened to smother him.

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison