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Sheinbaum said earlier that the opening match was "guaranteed," though the left-leaning leader again ruled out using police to repress the demonstrations.

From Barron's ● Jun. 9, 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

Among white Americans are committed segregationists who will repress regardless—and others who are uneasy about repression but uncertain about protesters’ aims.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026

Still, there are some precedents for attempts to repress them.

From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2025

“Luna, my love, if you should feel any burgeoning talent today—perhaps an unexpected urge to sing opera or to declaim in Mermish—do not repress it! You may have been gifted by the Gernumblies!”

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling

Certain details of the scene are so grim she represses them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 13, 2026

An excitatory signal encourages communication between brain cells, whereas an inhibitory signal represses it, like the gas and brake pedals in a car.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 13, 2023

The landlocked country borders China, which human rights groups say represses religious freedom.

From Reuters ● Sep. 3, 2023

It is a totalizing system that represses human agency and offers no escape: We are “like butterflies, pinned live and wriggling onto history’s collage.”

From New York Times ● Feb. 14, 2023

The saint represses the devil; the sinner represses the god.

From A Dominie in Doubt by Alexander Sutherland Neill

On the other, she was also the voice of rebellion for the repressed members of her enormous fan base.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

“They have to repress themselves. So they want others to be repressed as well. ‘How dare you live outside of this box and have freedom of choice and a comfortable, fun, beautiful life?”

From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026

In the 1980s, Iraq's late ruler Saddam Hussein, who repressed the Shia population, went to war with the Islamic republic.

From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 2026

“It was more that something must have just drifted into my head thinking, ‘You take two men repressed in their current life, repressed in the modern world.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2026

I cared more that he had helped found the League of Nations, promoting freedom around the world, than the fact that he had repressed freedom at home.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

“We’re not making records that are just going to go sit on the shelf — these are records we’re continually repressing all the time anyway.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026

This strategy involves the central bank artificially repressing bond yields in the market.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 19, 2025

Beijing has been accused for years of repressing the Muslim Uyghur minority in the province, which borders Kazakhstan.

From Barron's ● Nov. 14, 2025

They argue that they cannot engage a government that has been repressing them as they demand basic human rights.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2025

Around the time of the riddle lottery, Aureliano Segundo began waking up with a knot in his throat, as if he were repressing a desire to weep.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez