repression
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The Argentina-based Inter-American Legal Assistance Center for Human Rights, which supports victims of repression in Nicaragua, strongly condemned Rivera's death and said those responsible "must be held criminally accountable".
From BBC • May 31, 2026
"Putting so many resources solely into repression, with ever more police, doesn't work," Fournier told the BBC.
From BBC • May 27, 2026
Libya has long faced repression and poverty, both during and after Gaddafi's rule.
From Barron's • May 26, 2026
The reasons for John’s ferocious emotional repression are not fully explored, but they seem intrinsic to his grimly sustaining notion of island heritage.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026
This is progress of a sort, but it’s also repression, since it means that pop culture has succeeded to a considerable extent in burying something that used to be right out in the open.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
Vocabulary lists containing repression
"The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin
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"The Story of an Hour"
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., "Beyond Vietnam" (1967)
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