suppressions
- plural of suppression.
Example Sentences
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I understood that just because something happened to me, it didn’t suspend the suppressions of time and the failures of memory and the most human of all errors, bureaucratic filing systems.
From The Guardian • Apr. 4, 2020
The Forest Service and the Department of Interior can transfer money from other programs once their fire suppressions accounts have been depleted.
From US News • May 5, 2015
They’re not in the interest of the story; they are suppressions of the story, ones that the filmmakers seemed to think they could get away with.
From The New Yorker • Dec. 5, 2014
And there were a remarkable range of those as well: dark pageboy, brown mullet, reddish bob — all heroic suppressions, in the cause of art, of her natural blondness.
From New York Times • Feb. 20, 2010
He seems to carry the weight of those suppressions on his conscience.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
