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> 今はどうにか爆発だけは抑えてるわ

They're talking about a weird monster trapped in a tank.

I don't get how だけは works here after a noun and with 抑える

I thought it said something like "Explosions are the only thing holding it
back" but that didn't quite make sense so I went for the official translation:

> We've managed to keep it from exploding. For now.
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Noun だけは + verb
The official translation is correct. Here, 爆発 is the **object** of 抑える ("to
suppress"). The sentence is roughly the same as:

> 今はどうにか爆発を抑えてるわ  
>  We've managed to suppress an explosion.

But を has been replaced by だけは, where は is a contrast marker and だけ is "only".

> 今はどうにか爆発だけは抑えてるわ  
>  We've managed to suppress an explosion _(at least, although we've failed to
> suppress everything else)_.

Remember that は is not a subject marker but a topic marker, and [it can
replace を](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/23378/5010).
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