variants
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as in to repress
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Recent Examples of stanch
Internally, leaders are scrambling to stanch the bleeding.
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Jane Thier, Fortune, 17 Sep. 2024
The calming action of the vagus nerve is the biological basis for new therapies that aim to stimulate the nerve to quell seizures, relieve anxiety disorders, cool the body’s inflammatory response and stanch a migraine attack, among a long list of potential treatments.
—R. Douglas Fields, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Sep. 2024
In an additional move to try to stanch subscriber cancelations during the blackout, DirecTV is offering a $30 credit to customers who sign up for either Dish Network’s Sling Orange package or Fubo’s streaming services.
—Todd Spangler, Variety, 7 Sep. 2024
Fellow swimmers heard Adams screaming and used a surfboard to help him onto the beach, where lifeguards and others provided first aid, applying a tourniquet to stanch his bleeding before loading him into an ambulance.
—Karen Kucher, The Mercury News, 12 July 2024
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Jane Thier, Fortune, 17 Sep. 2024
The calming action of the vagus nerve is the biological basis for new therapies that aim to stimulate the nerve to quell seizures, relieve anxiety disorders, cool the body’s inflammatory response and stanch a migraine attack, among a long list of potential treatments.
—R. Douglas Fields, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Sep. 2024
In an additional move to try to stanch subscriber cancelations during the blackout, DirecTV is offering a $30 credit to customers who sign up for either Dish Network’s Sling Orange package or Fubo’s streaming services.
—Todd Spangler, Variety, 7 Sep. 2024
Fellow swimmers heard Adams screaming and used a surfboard to help him onto the beach, where lifeguards and others provided first aid, applying a tourniquet to stanch his bleeding before loading him into an ambulance.
—Karen Kucher, The Mercury News, 12 July 2024
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The protests—the biggest and most violent since the end of the dictatorship—uncapped a well of simmering rage (and were brutally repressed by the Chilean national police).Carolina A. Miranda, The Atlantic, 18 Oct. 2024
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Same old story: repress human nature too much and disaster follows.Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024
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Some voters may view restrictions on electioneering as suppressing their First Amendment rights, Huefner noted.Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 3 Nov. 2024
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At the same time, some argue that voter intimidation implies that someone is trying to suppress voting, not encourage it.Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 2 Nov. 2024
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As the girls were crossing the bridge, German turned back and posted several photos to Snapchat, including one of Williams minding her steps.Aja Romano, Vox, 11 Nov. 2024
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Another theory posits that the wiggling of Alfvén waves, oscillations in the Sun’s magnetic field that penetrate into the corona and turn back on themselves, can also inject energy into the solar wind.ByHannah Richter, science.org, 31 Oct. 2024
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Among her additional credits are The Brink, about far-right political strategist Steve Bannon (the Trump whisperer who was just released from federal prison) and Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, about the work of the extraordinary Chinese artist and China’s efforts to squelch his activism.Matthew Carey, Deadline, 31 Oct. 2024
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In the sequence before, River deposited his grandfather in a retirement home, which (mostly) squelches Lamb’s suspicion that David might have been strategically playing up his dementia.Scott Tobias, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2024
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Throughout the labor action, workers held firm to their demand for a 40% wage increase and the restoration of their pensions, a benefit that ceased to be available to new workers after being discontinued during a 2014 extension of a 2008 collective bargaining agreement.Melvin Backman, Quartz, 5 Nov. 2024
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While Honda discontinued its two hydrogen passenger cars available in California in 2021, Toyota and Hyundai continue to produce new hydrogen passenger cars for sale in the state.Harri Weber, Popular Science, 30 Oct. 2024
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The former Tottenham, Everton, Leicester and Barcelona striker, with 80 caps for England, was briefly suspended by the BBC in 2023 after tweeting criticism of the Conservative government policy.Harriet Marsden, theweek, 12 Nov. 2024
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For tackling and punching the student multiple times, Morrow was suspended from the team for six months and served 46 days in a work-release program last summer after being convicted of misdemeanor assault.Kyle Newman, The Denver Post, 10 Nov. 2024
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He was arrested in Savannah and is charged with felony counts of assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers, and obstruction of law enforcement, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington, D.C., said in a statement.Phil Helsel, NBC News, 15 Nov. 2024
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Garcia is able to stay on top of his horse but also impedes Borel and A.U. Miner.Iliana Limón Romero, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2024
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“Stanch.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stanch. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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