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The disconnect shows how Tehran has managed to squelch traffic through the crucial energy chokepoint with relatively little military force, only a handful of drone and missile attacks on ships.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

Still, she said, the case revealed "a series of statements by Zuckerberg at the time of those acquisitions that looked like a desire to squelch a nascent threat to Facebook's dominance".

From BBC ● Nov. 18, 2025

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 policy “represents one of the most caustic, corrosive and chilling efforts to squelch the voice of this commission, the office of inspector general and the Sybil Brand Commission,” Johnson said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2025

That way not even Xenocrates could squelch the truth.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

What crushes confidence is uncertainty that squelches investment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026

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 not only imperils his $2.183 million salary for 2021, but it also squelches trade talks for the fourth-year pro from Penn State.

From Seattle Times ● May 14, 2021

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

“I guess the return of the jewels squelches the Macdougal theory,” he remarked.

From The Black Box by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

In the past week, the council squelched progress on a deal to gradually open Hormuz.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 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

The Senate provided guidelines, such as making clear statements represented faculty members or groups and not the university and ensuring that minority or dissenting views are not squelched.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2024

He squelched the panic and forced himself to give an encouraging smile as he walked back and knelt at her side.

From "Time Bomb" by Joelle Charbonneau

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

From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2024

“I’m driving a 300-mile loop today,” she says, squelching tears.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 8, 2024

In addition, the destruction of evidence and the squelching of internal reports only expanded that seemingly bottomless abyss that still, in part, confronts us.

From Salon ● May 25, 2023

Wednesday to shovel mud out from under the cars that had been mired along Fredonia Drive, their boots slipping and squelching in the thick sludge that still stood a few feet high in some areas.

From New York Times ● Jan. 11, 2023

The little girl leaped over a fallen tree trunk, her sneakers squelching through the forest muck.

From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken