Example Sentences

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"I have been suppressing the memory," she said, adding that she found the courage to speak up in the wake of Taiwan's growing MeToo movement.

From BBC • Jul. 20, 2023

Meanwhile, I predict creativity will surge as millions of people muddle through sheltering and realize they have been suppressing emotions and guarding hidden talents for too long.

From Washington Post • Mar. 20, 2020

To-day California is paying for her sins of eight years ago in suppressing honest reports of bubonic plague, when she should have been suppressing the plague itself.

From McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908. by Various