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damper

noun as in hindrance

Weak match

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Keep everything from the road-scanning camera on the front bumper—which allows the adaptive suspension dampers to respond to the road predictively—to the hidden hatch button in the rear wiper.

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The setting and main character’s lack of specificity might have been another box office damper at first.

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"And obviously the current administration has put a big damper on that."

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But a lot of music fans, this writer included, deal with disability, health and/or mobility issues that can put a damper on the typical festival experience.

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It has put a painful damper on a job that has brought Ramos years of fulfillment.

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