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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.
Unless Starr manages to push the perjury issue back to center stage, Mrs. Clinton's defense of her husband will stifle the public's appetite for further investigation.
Because the price for Windows has more than doubled since 1990 and because the apparent monopoly might "stifle services that would emerge with competition," the editorial concludes that Microsoft could be bad for consumers.
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.