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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

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

Among white Americans are committed segregationists who will repress regardless—and others who are uneasy about repression but uncertain about protesters’ aims.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026

Colonel Gerineldo Márquez could not repress the disdain that was inspired in him by that attitude.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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

You contextualize learned behavior; you contextualize trauma and things they learned that make them these repressed adults.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2026

But when Jamie Bell was cast as Niall, the gentler, more repressed character of the duo, he persuaded Gadd to take the role.

From BBC ● Apr. 21, 2026

My lips trembled but I repressed my tears.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

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

From BBC ● May 25, 2026

People fed up with rolling blackouts have staged sporadic protests in recent days, banging pots and shouting slogans against the government, rare demonstrations in a country known for repressing dissent.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 22, 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

“Very easily said!” remarked Camilla, amiably repressing a sob, while a hitch came into her upper lip, and her tears overflowed.

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens