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

From Salon ● Sep. 21, 2026

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 vlei people melted into the shadows, and all he could detect were their melancholy cries and the squelch of their feet.

From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer

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

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

In the past week, the council squelched progress on a deal to gradually open Hormuz.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 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

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

From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown

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.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2025

When it comes to the body horror aspect of it all, “The Substance” delivers on all fronts, from its heightened satire, squelching and crackling sound effects, and revved-up visuals.

From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2024

"The amount of water that came in was horrendous," she said, explaining how the carpets were "squelching" underfoot and almost all of her son's things were drenched.

From BBC ● Dec. 2, 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

The clay made squelching, sucking noises, as if it were trying to swallow the spade.

From "A Single Shard" by Linda Sue Park