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chilling effects

chilling effects is the plural of chilling effect.

Meaning of chilling effect

Noun

chilling effect (plural chilling effects)

  1. A discouraging effect, especially on certain forms of officially legal speech.
    • A “chilling effect,” a phrase invoked with numbing regularity these days, is the shibboleth that civil libertarians have brandished for a couple of decades against actions that could deter the press from exercising its constitutional freedom.1984 December 23, Lester Bernstein, “‘Chilling Effect’ or Fresh Air?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
  2. Synonym of wind chill.
    Synonyms:
    wind chill

Questions about chilling effects

What is chilling effects the plural of?
Chilling effects is the plural of chilling effect.

Words near chilling effects in the dictionary

  1. chillin' like a villain
  2. chilliness
  3. chillinesses
  4. chilling
  5. chilling effect
  6. chilling effects
  7. chilling it with
  8. chilling out
  9. chilling to the bone
  10. Chillingham
  11. chillingly

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