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When companies with similar businesses look to combine, regulators seek to assess whether the proposed merger could stifle competition in the market.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026

“I will never stifle the growth of technology that will be bigger than the industrial revolution,” Trump said on Tuesday.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

Trying to stifle anger over this may be the single most common topic in Christian marital advice content.

From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026

The US is not going to "stifle the growth of something that will be bigger than the industrial revolution," he added.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

I stifle it in the folds of the hanging cloak, clench my eyes, from which tears are squeezing.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood

A new hurricane season record is likely to be set this week as a historic and still strengthening El Niño stifles tropical development in the Atlantic.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

A powerful military gives the country global influence but stifles its economic and political modernization.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

And earlier this year, a jury found that Live Nation was an illegal monopoly, following years of criticism that the company stifles competition and overcharges fans, but analysts say a breakup is unlikely.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 2, 2026

Today, Zabtia said, it is no longer censorship that stifles filmmaking in Libya, but an array of other challenges compounded by a lack of public support.

From Barron's ● Jan. 16, 2026

The mousy-haired girl clamps her hand over her mouth and stifles a sob.

From "Divergent" by Veronica Roth

Since its inception with a handful of reporters, Mada has been buffeted by but survived the crackdown that has stifled nearly all local press.

From Barron's ● Nov. 8, 2026

For many Halloween lovers, decorating is a passion that can’t be stifled.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

While Odebunmi was producing for Cleveland, the Cavaliers largely stifled Birmingham’s top offensive threat, wide receiver Paul Turner.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

“My Neighbor Totoro” is a gateway into a pastoral ideal that still exists in living memory, reviving parts of our imagination that maturity has stifled into dormancy.

From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2026

Amidst stifled laughs, the Dactyl Hill Squad nodded in unison.

From "Dactyl Hill Squad" by Daniel José Older

There were about 40 engagements on this tour - many of them carried out in temperatures of around 35C with stifling humidity.

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026

Such moments of barbed humor are infrequent in “Fatherland,” but Pawlikowski wields them like grenades, shattering the stifling niceties enveloping Thomas and Erika.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

Scientists are as prone as anyone else to groupthink, and stifling dissent often produces disaster.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

Maybe that can feel stifling for some viewers.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026

I whisper to my dog, stifling a cough.

From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness