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Example sentences for: stifle

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Encyclopedias, after all, are middlebrow, bourgeois books that tend, in the end, not to promote intellectual inquiry on the part of the people who use them but rather to stifle it.
His job is to stifle "bimbo eruptions" by uncovering dirt about the accusing women.
As America's unofficial central banker, Morgan tried to rein in the excesses of the business cycle, stifle speculative manias, control corporate competition, keep the currency "sound," and stop panics.
By confronting them with budget cuts instead of tax increases-claiming that Bradley would "shred the social safety net" and stifle "new initiatives on education" in order to "give two-thirds of the money to those who already have health insurance"-Gore gives them pause.
But there's no doubt that the law's vagueness does indeed make it more likely to stifle someone's freedom of expression.