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Louise Grillmair, similarly, says that - while her husband "would laugh" at speculation that the deaths might be connected - he would also "probably talk statistically" to squelch conspiracies.

From BBC ● Apr. 23, 2026

When the Federal Reserve tried to squelch the rise of the stock market in early 1929, Mitchell announced that National City would instead lend money to support the market.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 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 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

As the three sat, ears pricked, they watched the moose squelch slowly out of the muddy water, shake himself, and turn, cantering up the bank out of sight.

From "The Incredible Journey" by Sheila Burnford

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

It squelches independent inquiry, and makes such a thing impossible, profane, criminal, it authoritatively settles every dispute that can arise.

From Christian Science by Twain, Mark

From the opening minute, Belgium absolutely dominated the Americans and squelched every shred of optimism the U.S. had generated among fans about their promising start to the tournament.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 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

Danger hangs in the air like the clouds over the fields where Sammie works barefoot, mud squelched between his toes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2025

She squelched him in a hurry: ‘You go eat grass!’

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers

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

But when Ms Helliar visited the flat, she found the carpets were still squelching underfoot and there was a heavy smell of mould.

From BBC ● Dec. 2, 2023

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 earth was wet and squishy beneath my feet, so my steps made squelching sounds.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff