suppressive
Example Sentences
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Kidney cancer has fewer mutations to target, while bladder cancer has a more suppressive tumor environment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
The book was banned in Boston — a phrase for suppressive moral outrage that survives to this day.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2025
"These memory immune cells with latent suppressive properties act as a fail-safe mechanism in addition to the protection from traditional memory suppressive T cells."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2023
That is why I believe protecting libraries from suppressive movements is a societal necessity.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 24, 2023
Mr. Reddie has forked me, as he thinks, on a dilemma: if unaware, culpable ignorance; if aware, suppressive intention.
From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II by David Eugene Smith
