squelch

Example Sentences

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The forecast “was not enough to squelch the worry. Despite management coming out swinging, it’s the numbers, not the words, weighing on shares,” Ader wrote.

From Barron's • Jan. 29, 2026

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

So you stand there, and you squelch your toes, and you raise your arms up above your head, and you watch the clouds get sucked back into ducts in the sky.

From "Feed" by M.T. Anderson