inhibition

Example Sentences

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Her lack of inhibition causes social order to collapse; outside the cinema, the reaction was just as intense.

From BBC • Dec. 28, 2025

Immune checkpoint inhibition has been hailed as a breakthrough in cancer therapy, because blocking these proteins can unleash the immune system against tumors.

From Science Daily • Dec. 10, 2025

“This is a material de-risking event for Bayer’s pipeline, validating FXIa inhibition as a differentiated anticoagulation approach,” said analysts at Jefferies.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 24, 2025

A large study that’s testing the preventive power of Merck’s pill won’t report for a couple more years, but Amgen’s study shows that PCSK9 inhibition works.

From Barron's • Nov. 10, 2025

Second, the dominant position acquired by Aristotelian natural philosophy within the medieval universities resulted in a double inhibition on experimentation.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton