squelch

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

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 case is a headache that CEO Shari Redstone does not need as she pursues a high-stakes sale of the company, a deal the FCC itself could squelch.

From Salon ● Mar. 4, 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

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

Not only does the cutoff block out external voices, he said, it also squelches “the internal voice of the population that wanted to speak out.”

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 12, 2021

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 statements represented faculty members or groups and not the university and ensuring that minority or dissenting views are not squelched.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2024

Wet mud farted under their feet as they squelched through the swamp.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

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

His bike sliding and squelching through the mud, he reaches the bottom and jumps off, shouldering the frame.

From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2024

“I’m driving a 300-mile loop today,” she says, squelching tears.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 8, 2024

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

Rain had softened the road, liquid mud came squelching up between my toes as I walked.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya