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sup·press·es

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of suppresses in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of suppresses in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of suppresses in a Sentence

  1. President Obama:

    I believe a government that suppresses peaceful dissent is not showing its strength; it is showing weakness and it is showing fear.

  2. Jorge Luis Borges:

    I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.

  3. Naval Operations Admiral Jonathan Greenert:

    If they can be extended, it really suppresses the problem, if they can't be extended, it exacerbates the problem.

  4. Gerry Bell:

    What El Niño does is it suppresses the hurricane season, mainly during the peak months of the season, which are August, September and October.

  5. Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger, Chapter IX:

    [Mankind] is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise. Sometimes the noisy handful is right, sometimes wrong, but no matter, the crowd follows it.

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