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Mr. Platkin’s subpoena has chilled its rights under the First Amendment, it argues.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 1, 2025

The vitriolic climate at scores of campuses — including UCLA, UC Berkeley, Stanford, Harvard, USC and Cal State Long Beach — has chilled speech and torpedoed efforts to build understanding, students and faculty said.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 14, 2023

In other banking crisis news: SVB’s collapse has chilled start-up funding.

From New York Times • Mar. 28, 2023

The Federal Reserve's fastest interest rate-hiking cycle since the 1980s, aimed at quelling inflation, has chilled demand for housing.

From Reuters • Dec. 23, 2022

Even the whole thing with Mong has chilled out since the night I caught him standing over me.

From "We Were Here" by Matt De La Peña