suppressive
Example Sentences
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Kidney cancer has fewer mutations to target, while bladder cancer has a more suppressive tumor environment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
The book was banned in Boston — a phrase for suppressive moral outrage that survives to this day.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2025
The new study in Science reports that maintaining protective memory suppressive T cells is mediated by tiny populations of baby cells that remain in mothers after pregnancy called fetal microchimeric cells.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2023
That is why I believe protecting libraries from suppressive movements is a societal necessity.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 24, 2023
Excessive cold is as suppressive in its effects upon the organism as are poisonous antiseptics or antifever medicines.
From Nature Cure by Henry Lindlahr
