suppression
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The medications that cause ovarian suppression and have effectively relieved menstrual pain and helped millions of women to manage endometriosis, polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome, and ovarian cysts?
From Slate ● Jul. 28, 2026
A history of fire suppression and bans on indigenous cultural burning has also allowed more kindling to accumulate on the forest floor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
Babydoll dresses didn’t cause the suppression of the Epstein Files or deny justice to his victims.
From Salon ● Jun. 12, 2026
Bomb technicians from the FBI and Sheriff’s Department worked together to extract it from the bag, place a bomb blast suppression device on top and remove it from the airport.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2026
Later in his life, Newton presided over the Royal Society, a fellowship of scientists, and was Master of the Mint, where he devoted his energies to the suppression of counterfeit coinage.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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I understood that just because something happened to me, it didn’t suspend the suppressions of time and the failures of memory and the most human of all errors, bureaucratic filing systems.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 4, 2020
The Forest Service and the Department of Interior can transfer money from other programs once their fire suppressions accounts have been depleted.
From US News ● May 5, 2015
They’re not in the interest of the story; they are suppressions of the story, ones that the filmmakers seemed to think they could get away with.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 5, 2014
And there were a remarkable range of those as well: dark pageboy, brown mullet, reddish bob — all heroic suppressions, in the cause of art, of her natural blondness.
From New York Times ● Feb. 20, 2010
He seems to carry the weight of those suppressions on his conscience.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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