suppressed
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You can never quite relax, because you're always just waiting for the raise of the eyebrow, the suppressed guffaw, the uninvited joke, whatever.
From BBC • Apr. 18, 2026
He shifted his rhetoric, appealing to nationalist and religious sentiments, long suppressed under communism.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026
"In another child, the therapy completely suppressed metabolic crises that occurred almost monthly, while another patient no longer suffered from epileptic seizures."
From Science Daily • Mar. 31, 2026
And an underpinning of loneliness and suppressed yearning.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2026
The township was in a constant state of insurrection; someone was always marching or protesting somewhere and had to be suppressed.
From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah
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