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or staunch
as in to repress
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Recent Examples of stanch
While Charter seems to have stanched the bleeding in video, the company lost far more broadband customers than had been anticipated.
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Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 28 July 2025
Ariel’s fiscal feats matched the desperate need to stanch the town’s decline, and to engineer a revitalization.
—Jack Fowler, National Review, 4 July 2025
But immigrants are unlikely to stanch future population losses here, experts say, pointing to Trump administration policies that are choking off refugee programs and other immigration channels.
—St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Chicago Tribune, 30 June 2025
The hope is that after five days of talks and speeches, nations will agree to international controls on fishing, deep-sea mining, wildlife conservation, and other issues, in order to stanch the rapid degradation of oceans, crucial to reining in global warming.
—Vivienne Walt, Time, 10 June 2025
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Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 28 July 2025
Ariel’s fiscal feats matched the desperate need to stanch the town’s decline, and to engineer a revitalization.
—Jack Fowler, National Review, 4 July 2025
But immigrants are unlikely to stanch future population losses here, experts say, pointing to Trump administration policies that are choking off refugee programs and other immigration channels.
—St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Chicago Tribune, 30 June 2025
The hope is that after five days of talks and speeches, nations will agree to international controls on fishing, deep-sea mining, wildlife conservation, and other issues, in order to stanch the rapid degradation of oceans, crucial to reining in global warming.
—Vivienne Walt, Time, 10 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stanch
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This is welcome news for a system plagued by various exogenous shocks — including COVID and related frothy valuations, high interest rates and the 2022 market correction, the US electoral cycle, and tariff uncertainty — that have resulted in wide bid-ask spreads repressing deal activity.—
Control Risks,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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But outside of the ring, Christy hides and represses her lesbianism and winds up marrying her trainer Jim Martin (Ben Foster), who manipulates and physically abuses her.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
5 Sep. 2025
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Although Canon had mandated that the Cat's programmability be suppressed, the IAI team nevertheless maintained the ability to compute expressions, which Canon permitted as an extension of the editor metaphor.—
Cameron Kaiser,
ArsTechnica,
12 Sep. 2025
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However, the country's typically strict online censors did not appear to be limiting discussion in the comments—a tactic often used to suppress sensitive or politically awkward narratives.—
Micah McCartney,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 Sep. 2025
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Later in the season, as more northern waters cool off and the main hurricane development region stays toasty, the instability dial could be turned back up.—
Alex Harris,
Miami Herald,
11 Sep. 2025
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Clayton Kershaw has turned back the clock.—
The Athletic MLB Staff,
New York Times,
8 Sep. 2025
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In between times, there are long shots of the gingko, tree’s-eye views of what is happening on the ground and squelching closeups of germinating seeds – luscious and inescapably sensual.—
Stephanie Bunbury,
Deadline,
5 Sep. 2025
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Our own planet’s active geology squelched our ability to retain a full history of the onset of life.—
Bruce Dorminey,
Forbes.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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Those that are eligible typically involve medical judgment, surprise medical bills, or an insurer deciding to retroactively cancel or discontinue coverage or determining that a treatment was experimental.—
Duaa Eldeib,
ProPublica,
10 Sep. 2025
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In May, for instance, the Department of Education discontinued Biden-era grants worth $1 billion aimed at improving mental health services in schools, saying the programs were not advancing administration priorities.—
Oren Oppenheim,
ABC News,
9 Sep. 2025
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After the loss, coach Sherrone Moore had to grapple with the choice made by Michigan officials — and Moore himself — to suspend the coach for the Wolverines’ next two games.—
Mitch Sherman,
New York Times,
8 Sep. 2025
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Due to the idle activity, Bangladesh closed three land ports on the Indian border at the end of August, and suspended operations at another.—
Glenn Taylor,
Sourcing Journal,
8 Sep. 2025
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Miami goalkeeper Oscar Ustari was issued a red card in the 38th minute for impeding Charlotte’s Wilfried Zaha in the box.—
Michelle Kaufman,
Miami Herald,
12 Sep. 2025
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The university has also cracked down on chalking on campus sidewalks, which critics say impedes the free speech rights of students.—
Chris Quintana,
USA Today,
10 Sep. 2025
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“Stanch.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stanch. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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