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suppression

[suh-presh-uhn] / səˈprɛʃ ən /


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The medications that cause ovarian suppression and have effectively relieved menstrual pain and helped millions of women to manage endometriosis, polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome, and ovarian cysts?

From Slate Jul. 28, 2026

While most commercial jets are equipped with fire suppression systems in the hold, those are primarily designed to slow a blaze, not extinguish it entirely.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 18, 2026

Wallace thinks that this suppression of the cells’ powerhouses is actually what’s encouraging cancer growth.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 15, 2026

Babydoll dresses didn’t cause the suppression of the Epstein Files or deny justice to his victims.

From Salon Jun. 12, 2026

The materials we developed were generating positive feedback, and I became hopeful that we might be able to push back against the suppression of this difficult history of racial injustice.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

These suppressions do not occur in a vacuum.

From The Guardian Jan. 27, 2018

The Forest Service and the Department of Interior can transfer money from other programs once their fire suppressions accounts have been depleted.

From US News May 5, 2015

They’re not in the interest of the story; they are suppressions of the story, ones that the filmmakers seemed to think they could get away with.

From The New Yorker Dec. 5, 2014

And there were a remarkable range of those as well: dark pageboy, brown mullet, reddish bob — all heroic suppressions, in the cause of art, of her natural blondness.

From New York Times Feb. 20, 2010

He seems to carry the weight of those suppressions on his conscience.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin




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