squelches
Example Sentences
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What crushes confidence is uncertainty that squelches investment.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026
The firms have a stranglehold on the market that squelches competition, it adds.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 1, 2023
As she explained in a recent phone call, she was gobsmacked by the result, a dance track that mixes laser squelches, piano chords, a skittering beat and Croft’s wistful vocals.
From New York Times • Oct. 26, 2022
Antiretroviral treatment squelches HIV reproduction but sensitive tests show that even with the most effective treatments, small populations of white blood cells studded with the CD4 receptor harbor HIV’s DNA in a latent state.
From Science Magazine • Aug. 3, 2022
That squelches my theory, which I didn’t believe in myself.
From Up the Forked River Or, Adventures in South America by Ellis, Edward Sylvester
