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“Anytime you’re feeling stifled here, you’re like, ‘I need to go to New York and f**k a bunch of people and go out every night.’

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Iran aspires to become a key regional player in emerging technologies, despite decades of international sanctions that have stifled its development.

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I imagined years of stifled conflict before my three children all graduated from high school.

Bolivia has the world’s largest lithium deposits, which have been left untapped because of tight state control that has stifled investments.

The current view in Washington is that under Biden, regulators stifled innovation and growth, drove an exciting new industry abroad and deprived ordinary Americans of new ways to build wealth.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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