as in restraint
the checking of one's true feelings and impulses when dealing with others
learned that suppression of her angry feelings didn't necessarily make them go away
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Recent Examples of suppression
Advocates vow to fight voter suppression before and after ballots are cast.
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Beatrice Peterson, ABC News, 31 Oct. 2024
The fact that states have different rules and deadlines for administering elections — which can mean election results are released at different times on election night and afterward — is not a sign of voter suppression or fraud.
—Barbara Rodriguez, Terri Rupar, Them, 31 Oct. 2024
Each state has specific rules on how to secure these drop boxes, including with locks, video feeds, chain of custody requirements, police presence and even fire suppression.
—Eric Levenson, CNN, 30 Oct. 2024
In Portland, three ballots out of hundreds were damaged, Multnomah County Elections Director Tim Scott told reporters, after suppression devices inside the ballot box almost immediately extinguished the flames ignited by an incendiary device.
—Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 29 Oct. 2024
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Beatrice Peterson, ABC News, 31 Oct. 2024
The fact that states have different rules and deadlines for administering elections — which can mean election results are released at different times on election night and afterward — is not a sign of voter suppression or fraud.
—Barbara Rodriguez, Terri Rupar, Them, 31 Oct. 2024
Each state has specific rules on how to secure these drop boxes, including with locks, video feeds, chain of custody requirements, police presence and even fire suppression.
—Eric Levenson, CNN, 30 Oct. 2024
In Portland, three ballots out of hundreds were damaged, Multnomah County Elections Director Tim Scott told reporters, after suppression devices inside the ballot box almost immediately extinguished the flames ignited by an incendiary device.
—Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 29 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for suppression
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The combination of these two attributes offered each side a sense of psychological security and common consensus, allowing for the informed restraint of lethality.Henry A. Kissinger, Foreign Affairs, 18 Nov. 2024
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The Business Combination Agreement includes conditions such as the absence of any legal restraint preventing the consummation of the transactions and the effectiveness of the Registration Statement/Proxy Statement under the Securities Act.Quartz Bot, Quartz, 14 Nov. 2024
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Occupation, along with the repression and hardship that accompanied it, rallied new recruits to Hezbollah and other Lebanese armed political parties’ ranks.Sarah E. Parkinson, Foreign Affairs, 11 Nov. 2024
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More concretely, Iran is struggling with widespread domestic discontent over its repression of dissent and a weak economy battered by U.S. and other international sanctions.Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2024
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If Trump loses, Republicans will bemoan his lack of discipline, selecting Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) as his running mate and not employing Nikki Haley on the campaign trail.Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 5 Nov. 2024
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In my opinion, discipline is the backbone of success in both running and business.Nazar Gulyk, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
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It is defined by his combative personality, his lack of inhibitions, his willingness to ignore democratic norms to go places others won’t and blow past previous political boundaries in ways many find alarming − such as threatening to use the military against Americans who oppose him.David Jackson, USA TODAY, 5 Nov. 2024
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Allen Institute From their findings, the researchers hypothesize that the loss of these cells may trigger a domino effect that upsets the delicate balance between inhibition and excitation, promoting widespread system failures that result in neuronal loss and cognitive decline.New Atlas, New Atlas, 15 Oct. 2024
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“Suppression.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/suppression. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.
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