repress
Example Sentences
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In response, governments have resorted to interventions to repress demand, such as rationing, issuing Covid-era like directives to work from home, and giving some domestic consumers priority over others.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026
It said it will be sanctioning multiple entities, individuals and vessels to “stem the flow of revenue that the regime in Tehran uses to support terrorism abroad and repress its citizens.”
From MarketWatch • Feb. 6, 2026
Like many LGBTQ+ amateur athletes, Kortuem has a nagging feeling that having to repress a part of his personality stopped him being his best - and potentially cost him sporting opportunities.
From BBC • Jan. 31, 2026
Still, there are some precedents for attempts to repress them.
From Salon • Sep. 19, 2025
They all had a listless and dreary air of waiting somebody’s pleasure, and the most talkative of the ladies had to speak quite rigidly to repress a yawn.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
Vocabulary lists containing repress
The Emancipation Proclamation (1862)
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A Christmas Carol
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