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suppress
verb as in restrain, hold in check
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Example Sentences
There is a scientific hypothesis called the “original antigenic sin” that suggests that a person’s first exposure to a particular virus “may sort of kind of set the tone” for that person’s immune system going forward — so this worker’s first flu exposure may have provided his immune system with the defenses needed to suppress H5N1.
As the journalist Matt Pearce put it: “Hard to describe as a journalist how grateful I am to have a text-based app that does not suppress hyperlinks. I don’t know if people realize exactly how hostile the corporate internet has gotten toward news.”
What's more, the practical need to suppress voters of color becomes a central ingredient.
The goal of those threatening legal action, no matter how frivolous, is “to suppress criticism,” Jassin says.
Others told a Reuters journalist: "We refuse to let the charge of antisemitism be weaponised to suppress Palestinian resistance."
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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