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But they’ve actually been suppressing it through strategies like issuing a blaze of subpoenas for testimony from former Democratic officials to create a smokescreen of activity — all the while not actually doing anything meaningful.

From Salon

Before European settlers arrived in the American West and started suppressing fire at every turn, forests and grasslands burned on a regular basis.

Beijing says the standard of living of people in Tibet has greatly improved under its rule and denies suppressing their human rights and freedom of expression.

From BBC

But I think mainstream Israelis are sort of suppressing it because it's too hard for them to cope with.

From BBC

The U.S., meanwhile, has brokered high-level contacts between Israeli and Syrian officials, and conditioned assistance on the new government suppressing what the U.S. classifies as “terrorist organizations,” including a number of Palestinian factions.

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

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