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  • noun Plural form of suppression.

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Examples

  • The eight-county diocese, led by Bishop Richard Lennon, recently completed the process of closing 50 churches through mergers or outright shutdowns -- called suppressions -- since last year.

    Church Closings Lead Catholics To Consider Merging Communities 2010

  • Despite fines, "suppressions," and imprisonments, this gifted writer and unscrupulous blackguard had, as every one knows, made incessant war upon the Empire and all its

    The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 1 Ambrose Bierce 1878

  • This prison simply does what it is supposed to do without adding suppressions that are not stated in the sentences of prisoners. p.s. I would loose the faces on the ceiling though

    World’s Most Luxurious Prison : Law is Cool 2008

  • The issue of human rights had never been far from the surface when Western nations interacted with China, and the memory of the violent suppressions of the Tiananmen protests had faded but never evaporated.

    Superfusion Zachary Karabell 2009

  • The issue of human rights had never been far from the surface when Western nations interacted with China, and the memory of the violent suppressions of the Tiananmen protests had faded but never evaporated.

    Superfusion Zachary Karabell 2009

  • That should prevent the vote suppressions the Republicans achieved previously.

    Election Central Sunday Roundup 2009

  • I had enough ambition within myself to try to create a better world -- in spite of the depressions and the suppressions, and I had my share.

    Danny Miller: Eartha Kitt, CIA Target 2009

  • The issue of human rights had never been far from the surface when Western nations interacted with China, and the memory of the violent suppressions of the Tiananmen protests had faded but never evaporated.

    Superfusion Zachary Karabell 2009

  • Once their suppressions and shading are exposed (which is ridiculously simple to do since by definition the cannot be hid); it's all downhill for them from there.

    Coming Soon-- Riots in America? 2009

  • We've survived world wars and plagues, depressions, suppressions.

    Steven Weber: My Morning Ritual 2009

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