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They also tend to repress their emotions, which he said has "many negative effects, not only on the mind but also on the body."

From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 2026

“And so it looks as though the strike campaign may be organized around trying to erode the ability of the regime to repress in those areas.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 8, 2026

Mr. Klosterman views football as a martial game in which organization, rules and technology repress individuality.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026

It said it will be sanctioning multiple entities, individuals and vessels to “stem the flow of revenue that the regime in Tehran uses to support terrorism abroad and repress its citizens.”

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 6, 2026

“Luna, my love, if you should feel any burgeoning talent today—perhaps an unexpected urge to sing opera or to declaim in Mermish—do not repress it! You may have been gifted by the Gernumblies!”

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling

Certain details of the scene are so grim she represses them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 13, 2026

Dubbed GENtoniK, the chemical cocktail both represses epigenetic factors that inhibit cell maturation and stimulates factors that promote it.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 31, 2024

The landlocked country borders China, which human rights groups say represses religious freedom.

From Reuters ● Sep. 3, 2023

It is a totalizing system that represses human agency and offers no escape: We are “like butterflies, pinned live and wriggling onto history’s collage.”

From New York Times ● Feb. 14, 2023

The national custom, which represses the normal intellectual development and social instincts of cultured, respectable women, is removed from this one class, which is favored by many circumstances.

From Working Women of Japan by Sidney Lewis Gulick

“They have to repress themselves. So they want others to be repressed as well. ‘How dare you live outside of this box and have freedom of choice and a comfortable, fun, beautiful life?”

From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026

In the 1980s, Iraq's late ruler Saddam Hussein, who repressed the Shia population, went to war with the Islamic republic.

From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 2026

Cummings has a wider range to traverse as Arnold, whose repressed rage eventually has to find an outlet.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2026

It has also sent Daphne into her memories, some of them long repressed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026

From a very early age, I understood enough, just enough about my classroom experiences to keep what I knew repressed, hidden beneath layers of embarrassment.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez

“We’re not making records that are just going to go sit on the shelf — these are records we’re continually repressing all the time anyway.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026

"By removing them and repressing their return, we're threatening our own future survival," he said.

From BBC ● May 25, 2026

This strategy involves the central bank artificially repressing bond yields in the market.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 19, 2025

Burkina Faso's military government, which emerged from a September 2022 coup led by Captain Ibrahim Traore, has regularly been accused of repressing figures the junta considers hostile.

From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2025

Or was it also about self- control, staying on top of your feelings, repressing those that got in the way of an emotionally difficult job?

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover