suppress
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“We suppress a lot to be respectful to other people, and there’s nothing bad in that,” Lo said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
The instrument combines optics, masks, self-flexing mirrors, and sensors that are designed to suppress the overwhelming glare of a star.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026
Fitch expects home-price growth to be “largely” flat this year, as mortgage rates stay high and suppress affordability for prospective home buyers.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 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
Then, as though he could not suppress the question, as though it burst from him in spite of himself, he asked, “Was my father a wizard? He was called Tom Riddle too, they’ve told me.”
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
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
The results indicate that FA suppresses this process by inhibiting voltage-dependent calcium channels, reducing the calcium signals needed for the muscles to tighten.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 30, 2026
Heat domes are large areas of high pressure, where sinking air suppresses development of precipitation and clouds, allowing heat to build up over days and weeks.
From Barron's ● Jul. 14, 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
"At the smallest spatial scales explored in the experiment, the production rate of J/ψ particles is significantly suppressed, with a statistical significance of about three standard deviations."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 2026
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
Quiet and shadowy, it has a slowly mounting power in its depiction of the conspiratorial thinking that surrounds the chronovisor, which Ernetti suggested was suppressed by the Vatican.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 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
He laid his hand on the hobbit’s shoulder in friendly fashion; but Frodo felt the hand trembling with suppressed excitement.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
When he began practicing urology in the 1980s, the common misunderstanding was that testosterone injections caused prostate cancer, further suppressing research and treatment of testosterone deficiency.
From Slate ● Sep. 13, 2026
That matters in pancreatic cancer because tumors often create an environment that is highly inflamed while also suppressing the immune system.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 2026
Such treatments could potentially encourage beneficial bacterial strains while suppressing populations associated with harmful effects.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 7, 2026
When the professional cost of publishing an unwelcome finding exceeds the cost of suppressing it, rational scholars suppress it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
“There is not” said Gawaine, suppressing the unicorn.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White