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- adverb In a
stifling manner; so as tosuffocate .
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Examples
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KIEV, Ukraine -- Former Ukraine Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko went on trial Friday on charges of abuse of office, insisting during a chaotic hearing in a small and stiflingly hot courtroom that the case is a plot by the nation's president to keep her out of politics.
Yulia Tymoshenko, Ukraine's Former Prime Minister, Goes On Trial For Abuse For Office The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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The room around me grew stiflingly hot, and everything blurred.
Ominous Kate Brian 2011
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The room around me grew stiflingly hot, and everything blurred.
Ominous Kate Brian 2011
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On the other hand, he couldn't see, couldn't hear, couldn't drink beer, and had to watch hockey games from inside a heavy and stiflingly hot costume.
Whatever happened to the Capstronaut? Dan Steinberg 2011
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KIEV, Ukraine -- Former Ukraine Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko went on trial Friday on charges of abuse of office, insisting during a chaotic hearing in a small and stiflingly hot courtroom that the case is a plot by the nation's president to keep her out of politics.
Yulia Tymoshenko, Ukraine's Former Prime Minister, Goes On Trial For Abuse For Office The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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He died in 1954, cast aside and embittered as the Soviet film industry became stiflingly bureaucratic.
Visualize a Soviet Utopia Kristin M. Jones 2011
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The very idea of laughter at the Supreme Court seems an oxymoron; the court is nothing if not gravely, stiflingly serious.
Supreme Court justices are not laughing at you. They're laughing with you. Robert Barnes 2011
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The celebrated Bataclan nightclub in the edgy 11th arrondissement of Paris was stiflingly hot and, even by its own standards, it was heaving.
France's young Socialists back François Hollande to reignite fires of 1968 2011
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The very idea of laughter at the Supreme Court seems an oxymoron; the court is nothing if not gravely, stiflingly serious.
Supreme Court justices are not laughing at you. They're laughing with you. Robert Barnes 2011
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These fears, given their intensity and breadth, manifest themselves in children in stiflingly protective, overly controlled, and, paradoxically, ultimately potentially counterproductive reactions.
Dr. Jim Taylor: Tiger Mom Is A Scaredy Cat Dr. Jim Taylor 2011
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