suppress
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"Mohammad's team and the other defence teams will file motions to suppress some of these categories of evidence, as well."
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
Many firms deliberately hold blue-sky sessions where participants are asked to voice ideas they would normally suppress fearing colleague ridicule.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
She has also endured a filming where Donald Trump openly leered at her and another where she seems to suppress a flinch when her own husband touches her knee.
From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2026
Researchers also need ways to suppress errors and establish confidence that a quantum system produced a valid result.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026
I noticed him trying to suppress a laugh and it made me feel a little better.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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Warming suppresses upwelling — which normally allows colder, deeper and nutrient-rich ocean water to rise closer to the surface.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
An aging population and chronic economic anemia raise questions about whether Tokyo ever will repay the debt, a worry that all else being equal suppresses demand for Japanese assets and thus the yen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
In most cases, the combined effect actually suppresses the growth of cosmic structure.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 2, 2026
"I am fed up of going on stuff that masks and suppresses the symptoms rather than treating the actual problem," he said.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
The clerk suppresses a look of horror before reaching for the tray on the very bottom rack.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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The Downing Street duo are trying to maintain this precious commodity of confidence and the promotion of economic animal spirits that have been suppressed by years of political and economic chaos.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
Capital allocation in the real economy became distorted, and price signals were suppressed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
Many wild places historically depended on fires to maintain their ecosystems, and as people have continued to build farther into those places, they have, with great success, suppressed those blazes, Frievalt said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
The loss of local manufacturing jobs helped suppressed demand in places like St. Louis.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 22, 2026
Colin glanced at Lindsey Lee Wells, who suppressed a smile as she smacked orange gum.
From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green
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Instead of broadly suppressing PGE2, researchers would therefore like to target the specific EP2 receptor responsible for the harmful inflammatory response.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 3, 2026
U.S. stocks rose after comments from a Federal Reserve official took the sting out of rising oil prices by suppressing Treasury yields.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
Many cope by masking or camouflaging — suppressing autistic traits in order to fit in.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
El Nino, a natural climate pattern when sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern Pacific Ocean become unusually warm, tends to promote hurricane activity in the Pacific while suppressing it in the Atlantic.
From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026
“I set about suppressing serious cases of indiscipline with the utmost urgency,” Pétain explained.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
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