variants
or staunch
as in to repress
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Recent Examples of stanch
As Spotify became the most successful music streamer on Earth, the American music industry stanched the bleeding, and revenues rebounded to pre-internet levels.
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Brad Shoup, The Atlantic, 11 Feb. 2025
That streamer in that same period posted $436 million in losses, before stanching the bleeding somewhat in Q4 with another $372 million loss.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 30 Jan. 2025
Many experts say none of those things would stanch the flow of the dangerous chemical.
—Laura Strickler, NBC News, 7 Sep. 2024
One possibility would be to stanch the flow of Han migrants, which feeds the resentment that ethnic minorities often feel.
—Sulmaan Khan, Foreign Affairs, 18 July 2014
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stanch
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Neither film mentions the pandemic, but both show how a circle of moneyed, urban sophisticates represses feelings about death and anxiety.—
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The woman has almost completely repressed them, revisiting them only at the very end of her life.—
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To tell the Blue Devils, basically, not to suppress their emotions.—
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The new, later Equal Pay Day marks a troubling reminder of how systemic barriers—ranging from occupational segregation to discrimination in hiring and promotion—continue to suppress the earning power of Black women.—
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Pic suffered a tough break when, shortly into the premiere showing at Roy Thomson Hall when the propulsive narrative was just taking off, the film had to be halted and the lights turned back on because of a medical emergency suffered by a ticketholder.—
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Palestinians have appeared ready for peace in the past, only to turn back to rejection and terrorism.—
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Investigation and expression on vital topics disfavored by the White House is being squelched.—
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There is an attempt to comment on the sacrifices that moms make, but it gets squelched by its own unevenness.—
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The Japanese love their fax machines so much that when plans were announced to discontinue them in government departments four years ago, they were scuttled due to widespread complaints.—
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Amazon discontinued 2016's Kindle Oasis in early 2024, and since then, the company hasn't offered a new e-reader with physical page turn buttons or any other alternative to touchscreen input.—
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Biden sharply expanded use of TPS and other temporary forms of protection in a strategy to create and expand legal pathways to live in the United States while suspending asylum for those who enter illegally.—
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Sarkozy had already been convicted in 2021 of corruption and influence peddling, with a three-year prison sentence, two years of which were suspended.—
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The charges were first dropped a few weeks into President Donald Trump’s second term in part because the case would impede Adams’ ability to do his job as mayor, including cooperating with Trump’s immigration crackdown, the Justice Department’s new acting deputy attorney general wrote.—
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Removing opportunities for public commentary could impede the department’s ability to operate in the public’s interest, according to experts who spoke with Reuters.—
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“Stanch.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stanch. Accessed 8 Apr. 2025.
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