How to Use stamp out in a Sentence

stamp out

verb
  • And Baran couldn’t stamp out their doubts.
    — Laura Isensee, Scientific American, 18 May 2026
  • That is not a governance failure to be stamped out.
    — Dan Adika, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
  • Yet polio has proved stubbornly hard to stamp out.
    — Tom Bartlett, The Atlantic, 28 Jan. 2026
  • The saddest thing about her character is the way affection has been stamped out of her life by rage.
    — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2025
  • The campaign took off, and other users joined in using the hashtag to stamp out fake accounts.
    — Essence, 17 Dec. 2025
  • Even more impressive than the scoreless streak is the degree to which Miller is stamping out even the threat of allowing a run.
    — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Apr. 2026
  • The internet and smartphone threatened to stamp out scribblers entirely.
    — Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Israel's government says the operation is aimed at stamping out militant groups active in the area.
    — ABC News, 17 Mar. 2026
  • The detentions are some of the highest profile examples of the kingdom’s efforts to stamp out corruption in recent years.
    — Matthew Martin, semafor.com, 5 Oct. 2025
  • Venezuelans got accustomed to dismissing it all as noise, just a pretext the dictatorship employed to stamp out civil rights.
    — Quico Toro, The Atlantic, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Binance, after all, had pleaded guilty to charges related to similar transactions and had pledged to stamp out such activity on its platform.
    — Leo Schwartz, Fortune, 12 Mar. 2026
  • However, LinkedIn says the browser extension scanning is intended to stamp out web scraping.
    — Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Venezuela’s opposition and human rights groups have said for years that the country’s socialist government uses detentions to stamp out dissent.
    — Reuters, NBC news, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Indian Railways will sunset its iconic bandhgala uniforms amid a push to stamp out colonial-era symbols, sparking a debate over the centuries-old garment.
    — Brendan Ruberry, semafor.com, 15 Jan. 2026
  • As Al Qaeda was stamped out, many remaining fighters turned their allegiance to ISIS.
    — Mithil Aggarwal, NBC news, 18 Dec. 2025
  • For all of the professional gains women have made over the past several decades, one stubborn measure of inequality—the gender wage gap—has been especially difficult to stamp out.
    — Stephanie H. Murray, The Atlantic, 16 Dec. 2025
  • Trump threatened military action over the killing of protesters and possible mass executions as authorities moved to stamp out those demonstrations.
    — ABC News, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Magyar has run his campaign on a promise to stamp out corruption and restore press freedom as well repair the country’s flagging economy and its relations with the EU.
    — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 12 Apr. 2026
  • The records shed light on the origins of the legislation, which followed years of pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses that DeSantis has tried to stamp out.
    — Lawrence Mower, Miami Herald, 10 Mar. 2026
  • The authorities stamped out slavery and undertook the systematic conquest of Angola.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Over the past decade, authorities have sought to stamp out protests against his government, including demonstrations against a controversial citizenship legislation and farmers’ protests.
    — ABC News, 5 June 2026
  • Iranian authorities first shut down the internet in January during mass anti-government protests that were eventually stamped out in a violent crackdown.
    — ABC News, 27 May 2026
  • Gestures, colloquialisms, facial expressions, local cuisine, and the like are not incidental to a tongue but constitute it; sometimes, to capture a word or phrase, in writing or in an algorithm, is to stamp out its meaning.
    — Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 16 Oct. 2025
  • That's key, says Geisbert, since vaccinating soon after a possible exposure — a strategy known as ring vaccination — has been critical to stamping out prior outbreaks.
    — Jonathan Lambert, NPR, 4 June 2026
  • There is a strong cultural civil society that has been thriving for years within Iran, in the absence of all the retail opportunities and travel opportunities and all the other liberties that the regime stamps out.
    — Daniel Drake, The New York Review of Books, 16 May 2026
  • The legislation also follows years of efforts by DeSantis to stamp out pro-Palestinian protesters on college campuses.
    — Lawrence Mower, Miami Herald, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Advertisement As in the past, the question now is who will offer Americans a real alternative, including a commitment to stamp out self-dealing in all three branches of the government.
    — Daniel Weiner, Time, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Restrictions on reproductive rights also aimed to increase birth rates following two world wars that had stamped out some of the population, particularly in the Soviet Union and Italy.
    — Seda Saluk, The Conversation, 16 Oct. 2025
  • It had been renamed and expanded in size roughly a year ago from a previously existing treatment facility as part of the Taliban government’s efforts to stamp out a significant drug addiction problem in the country.
    — Abdul Qahar Afghan, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2026
  • It had been renamed and expanded in size roughly a year ago from a previously existing treatment facility as part of the Taliban government's efforts to stamp out a significant drug addiction problem in the country.
    — Arkansas Online, 19 Mar. 2026

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