repress

“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

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

He told us to stop fussing, and then with no efforts to repress his disdain he packed her into a rickshaw bound for the polyclinic.

From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 13, 2026

An excitatory signal encourages communication between brain cells, whereas an inhibitory signal represses it, like the gas and brake pedals in a car.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 13, 2023

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

From Reuters ● Sep. 3, 2023

Film critic Robin Wood famously argued that "the true subject of the horror genre is the struggle for recognition of all that our civilization represses and oppresses."

From Salon ● Jan. 30, 2023

Taxation on industry represses the production of wealth; on luxuries, encourages Government in fostering excess; on necessary commodities, acts injuriously on the people's health and comfort.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 by Various

“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

Culture writer Sarah Carson called the morning travel drink the moment many repressed Brits “are finally free to escape.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026

“It was more that something must have just drifted into my head thinking, ‘You take two men repressed in their current life, repressed in the modern world.

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

Our legs refuse to move, our hands tremble, our bodies are a thin skin stretched painfully over repressed madness, over an almost irresistible, bursting roar.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque

“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

And in January, Justice Minister Gerald Darmanin recommended they "consider handling cases from the perspective of repressing human trafficking".

From Barron's ● Dec. 17, 2025

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

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 19, 2025

They argue that they cannot engage a government that has been repressing them as they demand basic human rights.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2025

“I’ve always been very good at repressing unpleasant things.”

From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer