stifle
Example Sentences
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It has thwarted explorers and stifled merchants’ ambitions.
Higher longer-duration borrowing rates, however, could keep the housing market on ice, stifle returns in the highflying tech sector and potentially point to a slowing labor market, plus a toxic brew of inflation.
From MarketWatch
"Jack della Maddalena has the skills to stifle Islam's game and put it on the feet and knock him out, might be second round, might be third."
From BBC
The rain could even end up being a helpful follow-up to the precipitation from the past few weeks to stifle the possibility of wildfires.
From Los Angeles Times
The EU faces significant pressure to water down or delay the implementation of the AI Act from tech companies and lobby groups, which say the rules add red tape and stifle innovation.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
