squelch

This year has seen unrelenting bad news for L.A. nightlife — the impacts of the wildfires, the continued Hollywood strike fallout, the cost-of-living crisis and ICE raids and protests that temporarily squelched downtown’s after-dark industry.

Heavy hailstones hissed into the grass and squelched into the mud and clanged off our robot.

He shouldn’t have lasted two innings but he survived, squelching early Dodger offensives and holding them to those two early runs while completing four innings despite three walks and four hits.

When the Federal Reserve tried to squelch the rise of the stock market in early 1929, Mitchell announced that National City would instead lend money to support the market.

The compact codifies much of the conservative vision for higher education, seeking to rein in campuses that the right perceives as liberal, quick to squelch conservative viewpoints and favoring traditionally marginalized groups.