SLAPPED DOWN Synonyms: 67 Similar and Opposite Words

slapped down

verb

past tense of slap down

as in suppressed

to put a stop to (something) by the use of force public protests against the dictatorial government were always promptly slapped down

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But as Daniel Goleman writes in his book Social Intelligence, in a society that puts too much emphasis on individualism, the power of the social brain often gets suppressed and overlooked.

Kevin Kruse, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
But Google's study, published in Nature, showed that for the first time, errors can be suppressed exponentially as a quantum computer increases in size – a breakthrough that has been pursued in the field for more than 30 years.

Sorcha Bradley, The Week UK, theweek, 10 Dec. 2024

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