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As Ajoy and Onishi explained, they instead squelch their doubts and fall in line.

From Salon ● Sep. 21, 2026

The disconnect shows how Tehran has managed to squelch traffic through the crucial energy chokepoint with relatively little military force, only a handful of drone and missile attacks on ships.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

Louise Grillmair, similarly, says that - while her husband "would laugh" at speculation that the deaths might be connected - he would also "probably talk statistically" to squelch conspiracies.

From BBC ● Apr. 23, 2026

It’s an agreeably heartfelt reminder that children are powered by an imaginative daring and purity of bonding we’d be wise to nurture, not squelch, if we’re going to learn how to inhabit the increasingly uninhabitable.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 23, 2026

Washington viewed the uprising as a direct threat to the authority of the federal government and called out the militia, a massive thirteen-thousand-man army, to squelch the uprising.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

What crushes confidence is uncertainty that squelches investment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026

Antiretroviral treatment squelches HIV reproduction but sensitive tests show that even with the most effective treatments, small populations of white blood cells studded with the CD4 receptor harbor HIV’s DNA in a latent state.

From Science Magazine ● Aug. 3, 2022

Now, the looming Amazon-Whole Foods tie-up squelches confidence in those hopes.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 14, 2017

The American Civil Liberties Union, which represented the company and published the request Tuesday, says the case shows authorities demand more customer information than is authorized by law and unconstitutionally squelches public objections.

From US News ● Oct. 4, 2016

That squelches my theory, which I didn’t believe in myself.

From Up the Forked River Or, Adventures in South America by Edward Sylvester Ellis

Touring the Marylander Condominiums in Prince George’s County, Md., I noticed how the ground squelched under my shoes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026

So far, the higher rates have softened but not squelched buyer demand in the spring home-buying season, he noted.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 26, 2026

Had there been better information, a more bounded threat, the arms race of the missile age might have been squelched before it took off.

From Slate ● Feb. 3, 2026

The Senate provided guidelines, such as making clear that statements represented faculty members or groups and not the university and ensuring that minority or dissenting views are not squelched.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2024

When he moved forward his feet squelched and he had to take off his shoes and shake them out before he could go on.

From "Stormbreaker" by Anthony Horowitz

A woman was told that her flooded flat was "habitable" - despite having "squelching" wet carpets and broken fire alarms.

From BBC ● Dec. 2, 2023

Within minutes, crews were dispatched to the burgeoning blaze on Mount Laguna — squelching it before it grew any larger than a 10-foot-by-10-foot spot.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2023

In addition, the destruction of evidence and the squelching of internal reports only expanded that seemingly bottomless abyss that still, in part, confronts us.

From Salon ● May 25, 2023

Wednesday to shovel mud out from under the cars that had been mired along Fredonia Drive, their boots slipping and squelching in the thick sludge that still stood a few feet high in some areas.

From New York Times ● Jan. 11, 2023

Before I could say anything in reply, she was across the yard, she and the cow squelching their way through the gumbo toward the sheep camp.

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson