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- verb Present participle of
suppress .
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Examples
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The Orwellianisms get thicker as Devine goes on, so thick that one senses the judgment they're most effectively suppressing is his own.
Barry Eisler: The Definition of Insanity Barry Eisler 2010
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Anyway, the copyright hook is obvious, but I doubt Paramount has any interest in suppressing free theater in the park.
Trek to Madworld Rebecca Tushnet 2009
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The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned.
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The Orwellianisms get thicker as Devine goes on, so thick that one senses the judgment they're most effectively suppressing is his own.
Barry Eisler: The Definition of Insanity Barry Eisler 2010
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The Orwellianisms get thicker as Devine goes on, so thick that one senses the judgment they're most effectively suppressing is his own.
Barry Eisler: The Definition of Insanity Barry Eisler 2010
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Is (was) the school administrator justified therefore in suppressing the rights of the few nonPC high school students?
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The irony to "modern scientific medicine" is that the evidence that doctors proudly show that a drug "works" is often actually evidence that the drug is effective in suppressing, not curing, a specific symptom (there are, of course, many exceptions to this general observation, such as antibiotics, but antibiotic drugs create other problems about which this writer and many others have commented already).
Dana Ullman: Homeopathy: A Healthier Way to Treat Depression? Dana Ullman 2010
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The economic noose that this will cause will be far superior in suppressing the government because it doesn't have the threat of nuclear war.
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The irony to "modern scientific medicine" is that the evidence that doctors proudly show that a drug "works" is often actually evidence that the drug is effective in suppressing, not curing, a specific symptom (there are, of course, many exceptions to this general observation, such as antibiotics, but antibiotic drugs create other problems about which this writer and many others have commented already).
Homeopathy: A Healthier Way to Treat Depression? Dana Ullman 2010
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The Orwellianisms get thicker as Devine goes on, so thick that one senses the judgment they're most effectively suppressing is his own.
Barry Eisler: The Definition of Insanity Barry Eisler 2010
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