irrepressible

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We all hold irrepressible yearnings and desires; they have driven us, across time, to engage with a spiritual world that encompasses beauty and, more importantly, our own inner lives and our connection to community.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026

The hosts dashed any outside hopes the Wallabies had of coming back when the irrepressible Hansen's catch inside the Aussie 22 led eventually to captain Caelan Doris touching down.

From Barron's • Nov. 15, 2025

She will be remembered as an irrepressible gossip, whose enormous sales caused some to overlook her enviable skills as a writer.

From BBC • Oct. 6, 2025

Incidentally, it also helped that the irrepressible Puka Nacua caught 10 passes for 130 yards.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 8, 2025

And I felt in this a cosmic injustice, a profound cruelty, which infused an abiding, irrepressible desire to unshackle my body and achieve the velocity of escape.

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates