squelch

When the economy is overheating, bond yields will rise, which will slow the economy and squelch the threat of higher inflation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

In fact, both Black activists and congressional champions of Reconstruction understood that race still mattered, and that made it critical to give Congress broad powers to squelch efforts to suppress or cancel out Black votes.

From Slate ● Oct. 7, 2025

The case is a headache that CEO Shari Redstone does not need as she pursues a high-stakes sale of the company, a deal the FCC itself could squelch.

From Salon ● Mar. 4, 2025

Judge Amit Mehta ruled that Google acted illegally to squelch competition in its online search business.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2024

In a feeble attempt to squelch the idea of inviting her, I put the onus back on them.

From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers

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

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

The American Civil Liberties Union, which represented the company and published the request Tuesday, says the case shows authorities demand more customer information than is authorized by law and unconstitutionally squelches public objections.

From US News ● Oct. 4, 2016

"If he tries to, and if it isn't what pleases other people, the Parliament or something squelches him."

From The Story Girl by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Touring the Marylander Condominiums in Prince George’s County, Md., I noticed how the ground squelched under my shoes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026

So far, the higher rates have softened but not squelched buyer demand in the spring home-buying season, he noted.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 26, 2026

Had there been better information, a more bounded threat, the arms race of the missile age might have been squelched before it took off.

From Slate ● Feb. 3, 2026

Everything about this strange arrangement has worked, every fear has been squelched, all awkwardness has disappeared, and the Lakers have been left with a happily productive father and a gratefully improving son.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 2025

She hadn’t moved yet, but a wet footfall squelched from behind her.

From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack

He shouldn’t have lasted two innings but he survived, squelching early Dodger offensives and holding them to those two early runs while completing four innings despite three walks and four hits.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2025

To her, the shift in messaging, and the squelching of this routine announcement, is alarming.

From Salon ● Mar. 29, 2025

A federal appeals court largely sided with the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office on many of the allegations, squelching much of the lawsuit over the deputies’ use of force.

From Seattle Times ● May 9, 2024

His bike sliding and squelching through the mud, he reaches the bottom and jumps off, shouldering the frame.

From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2024

We walk until we get to the dirt that sinks and sucks at our shoes, squelching with every step.

From "King and the Dragonflies" by Kacen Callender