irrepressible
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Irrepressible dancing grannies who have taken their routines abroad, taking over plazas outside the Louvre in Paris or Moscow’s Red Square, have been criticized as a stain on China’s image.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 17, 2021
In 1858, William Seward, a Republican senator from New York, gave a famous speech titled “The Irrepressible Conflict,” referring to the struggle between “slave labor” and “voluntary labor.”
From Washington Post • May 2, 2017
The Irrepressible Auntie Louise Pitre knows how to punch home a song.
From New York Times • Jun. 9, 2012
Irrepressible, implacable, insatiable, incontrovertibly loathed by many who compete with him.
From The Guardian • Jan. 2, 2011
The "Irrepressible Conflict" of this year, shows her laboring sturdily for temperance.
From The Story of a Life by Ellis, J. Breckenridge (John Breckenridge)
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