repression
Example Sentences
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Repression is a necessary but insufficient condition for the regime to survive the current economic meltdown.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026
"Repression of social problems by governments allow bureaucracies to rot and become sclerotic as the social pressure builds to the point where bureaucracies are exploded."
From Salon • Sep. 6, 2024
“It’s absolutely disgusting,” said McPeek, a member of the Seattle Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, which organized the rally.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 14, 2023
Prior to being seized for infringement on the Champagne title, the same product had been subject to an investigation by France's Directorate for Competition, Consumption and the Repression of Fraud.
From BBC • May 25, 2023
Repression was the panacea which Metternich recommended to all the governments of Germany, large and small.
From My Autobiography A Fragment by Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max)
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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