suppression
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That unexpected suppression presents a challenge for a long-standing explanation called "nuclear shadowing," which has successfully accounted for earlier measurements.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 2026
They include anyone whose careful social-science work, wherever it leads, has been met with organized suppression rather than organized rebuttal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
The local suppression of abolitionist mail persisted throughout the antebellum era during the administrations of Jackson’s eight successors, none of whom enforced the federal statute prohibiting detention of the mail.
From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2026
Abraham Mofokeng still carries the wounds of the bloody suppression of a protest in South Africa 66 years ago.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
But, unlike Adams, Madison's mastery of his own passions took the form of total suppression.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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
Vocabulary lists containing suppression
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