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Example sentences for: stifled

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But unprofitable heavy industry, state monopolies, and opaque bureaucracies slowly stifled growth.
Today, nobody disputes the argument that Vail's telephone monopoly stifled technological innovation.
It occurred to me, while laboring to write this column and make a bit of money to support my family, that it would do wonders for my stifled creativity to drive somewhere tropical, sip single-barrel bourbon, and have sex with a tawny barmaid.
The rest of the 75 page section contains a mix of strong writers being stifled (or perhaps pre-emptively stifling themselves) and weak ones being given too much space to say too little.
Nowadays the unh or ungh combination tends to convey exertion or being stifled.