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The phrase "stifle research" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It means to prevent or hinder the progress or advancement of research. Example: The government's strict regulations on funding have stifled research in the field of biotechnology, hampering the development of new and potentially life-saving treatments.
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Scientists fear that any regulatory body will stifle research.
The patents, they argued, stifle research and innovation and limit testing options.
It is not always right to stifle research that may fight the latter because it may aid the former.
A more hostile or antagonistic relationship would stifle research and is liable to encourage, rather than prevent, more serious lapses and scandals.
He said the cancer clause, if strictly invoked, would stifle research and reduce mankind to sitting around in the dark,...waiting to die of cancer.
The foundation sees winning public trust as a top priority, fearing that early mistakes "could set the field back by many years and stifle research".
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Another trend that stifles research innovation: the recent tendency toward overregulation of awarded grants.
Innovation would be stifled, research stunted and a precious national resource -- the world's best telephone system -- would be destroyed.
Stifling research on global warming will not make the phenomenon go away; it will just enable us to prolong our ignorance about it.
Such a hostile landscape has made investors cautious and strangled government funding, stifling research.
Policymakers and researchers need to tread carefully by crafting policies that protect patients' genome data without stifling research.
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