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Works at suppressing love, leading to insignificant future (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

destiny

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'future' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'works at suppressing love leading to insignificant' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'at' could be 'in' (synonymous in some cases - eg at school, in school) and 'in' is found within the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

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(Other definitions for destiny that I've seen before include "Ultimate fate" , "Kismet, fate" , "must?" , "Fortune" , "The future as arranged by fate" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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