repression
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“The signal matters: attempts to contain borrowing costs without addressing the underlying fiscal imbalance may fuel concerns about financial repression and currency debasement,” said Ole Hansen, head of commodity strategy at Saxo Bank.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Villarreal: Agnes has only known obedience and repression.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
"No one had ever dared do that," said political scientist Luis Salamanca, who noted that up until recently, such statements would have invited harsh political repression.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
Amodei’s main concern, he wrote in the letter, was the risk of authoritarian governments catching up with the U.S. in AI “to achieve permanent military superiority or perpetrate incredibly deep repression of their own people.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
It is a tragic cycle, condemning us to ever deeper inequality, and in the long run, almost no one benefits but the agents of repression themselves.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
There is non-fiction, too; histories of the Russian Revolution, of Stalin’s repressions, the fall of communism and of modern Russia’s failed attempts to build democracy.
From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2024
And a queue of people waiting for their turn to read out the names of victims of Soviet repressions no longer snakes through central Moscow streets in late October.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 20, 2024
“The repressions have destroyed procedural and professional guarantees for lawyers’ activities, resulting in the effective destruction of legal defense in the country.”
From Washington Times ● Jun. 18, 2023
"We have observed an increase in repressions everywhere. Some leaders have been stopped on the way, they were not allowed to pass," he said.
From Reuters ● Jan. 19, 2023
By disparagement, by starvation, by repressions, forced direction, and the stunning hammerblows of conditioning, the free, roving mind is being pursued, roped, blunted, drugged.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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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