squelch

Example Sentences

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The forecast “was not enough to squelch the worry. Despite management coming out swinging, it’s the numbers, not the words, weighing on shares,” Ader wrote.

From Barron's

It’s an agreeably heartfelt reminder that children are powered by an imaginative daring and purity of bonding we’d be wise to nurture, not squelch, if we’re going to learn how to inhabit the increasingly uninhabitable.

From Los Angeles Times

My socks squelch with each step in my new boots, earning a string of cringes.

From Literature

I see now that I was being “optoomuchstic” in thinking I could squelch your natural curiosity and powers of deduction.

From Literature

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