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Still, she said, the case revealed "a series of statements by Zuckerberg at the time of those acquisitions that looked like a desire to squelch a nascent threat to Facebook's dominance".

From BBC ● Nov. 18, 2025

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.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025

In fact, both Black activists and congressional champions of Reconstruction understood that race still mattered, and that made it critical to give Congress broad powers to squelch efforts to suppress or cancel out Black votes.

From Slate ● Oct. 7, 2025

The policy “represents one of the most caustic, corrosive and chilling efforts to squelch the voice of this commission, the office of inspector general and the Sybil Brand Commission,” Johnson said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2025

The one with the face like an anvil shrugged his shoulders and, without even rolling up his sleeves, shoved his arms into the dung with a squelch.

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz

What crushes confidence is uncertainty that squelches investment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026

But for the most part, this being a show about the possibilities of even the most minimal stage, a minimal stage makes an apt enough setting, and the style enhances more than it squelches.

From New York Times ● Oct. 30, 2022

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

“To end any of that suspicion, if you have the means to do so, it squelches a lot of that if you get someone who comes in and has an opposing view.”

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 12, 2019

Constantine of Greece has a German wife, Mrs. Dr. dear, and that fact squelches hope.

From Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

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

Danger hangs in the air like the clouds over the fields where Sammie works barefoot, mud squelched between his toes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2025

The other kids took their shoes off before they squelched around in the mud, but I figured with my artificial legs, everything would be just fine.

From "Ugly" by Robert Hoge

Hnath’s sequel, without squelching the politics, picks up the forgotten human story of Ibsen’s indelible classic.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2025

But when Ms Helliar visited the flat, she found the carpets were still squelching underfoot and there was a heavy smell of mould.

From BBC ● Dec. 2, 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

Sometimes it might have been our sneakers squelching.

From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt