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irrepressible

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The next day I met with my colleagues, a team of Ukrainian journalists lead by the irrepressible Natalia Gumenyuk, in Kyiv’s only open restaurant.

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Based on the audience reaction, unchecked glee, it’s likely that this irrepressible pair will eventually reunite.

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He’s young, so young his grandmother calls the mustache forming on his upper lip “dirt,” and he maintains an irrepressible smile full of green braces, even though the underlying event here—Arbery’s death—is grim.

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The exhibition, organized by curator Molly Donovan and drawing heavily on works donated by the irrepressible collectors Dorothy and Herbert Vogel, was lightly traveled when I saw it earlier this month.

My Unorthodox Life, whose nine-episode first season just arrived on the service, is yet another story of an irrepressible woman escaping her ultra-Orthodox prison.

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Suppressed, banned, scorned—it seems to speak to something within the human mind (or soul, if you like) that is irrepressible.

From a production standpoint, most of Napa has been lucky and irrepressible in the aftermath.

He was grounded for a few days, but fortunately for us, and for politics, his irrepressible good humor could not be squelched.

Then Germany scored first, in the 11th minute, through the irrepressible Thomas Müller.

And now all of a sudden I find myself consumed by an immense, irrepressible wrath.

Thus was he spared the look of utter loathing, of unconquerable, irrepressible disgust that leapt into her countenance.

It was Jenny's sympathy on this first night, when awakened by Ruth's irrepressible agony, that had made the bond between them.

She had an irrepressible longing for a few minutes' change of scene after her night of watching.

Prince Waldemar broke into an irrepressible fit of laughter and clapped Kaulmann on the shoulder.

That struggle is an irrepressible conflict existing in all nature, and from which man cannot escape.

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On this page you'll find 35 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to irrepressible, such as: boisterous, buoyant, ebullient, exuberant, rebellious, and uncontrollable.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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