Example Sentences

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As with everyone else in the retail, sneaker and clothing universe, Nike has had to navigate tariffs and an inflationary environment that has suppressed consumer-spending appetites.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 8, 2026

El Niño has suppressed the ocean’s ability to absorb heat, and a drop in Sun-blocking pollution also played a role—effects that will continue this year.

From Science Magazine • Jan. 2, 2024

This phenomenon has suppressed writers’ wages, the union has said.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 7, 2023

That has suppressed upward motion and inhibited updrafts, preventing the type of clustered thunderstorm activity that occasionally self-aggregates into a fledgling storm.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 4, 2021

Ibsen would suppress all this heightening as he has suppressed the soliloquy and the aside.

From Figures of Several Centuries by Symons, Arthur