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He backed a law paving the way for a state of emergency which would authorize military deployment to repress the movement and clear the blockades.

From Barron's ● Jun. 8, 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

Author and psychotherapist Jennifer Cox told Radio 4 Woman's Hour she believes women are "conditioned" to repress feelings of "frustration, anger, aggression and rage".

From BBC ● Jan. 19, 2026

He works hard, has high energy, can’t repress his essential nature.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 15, 2026

Dudley gently released himself from his mother’s clutches and walked toward Harry, who had to repress an urge to threaten him with magic.

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

Dubbed GENtoniK, the chemical cocktail both represses epigenetic factors that inhibit cell maturation and stimulates factors that promote it.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 31, 2024

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

There is a technic which liberates and a technic which represses the artistic self.

From Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered by Hofmann, Josef

It has also sent Daphne into her memories, some of them long repressed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026

While Fraser delivers an external performance as the tough American general, Scott offers a restrained, mostly tamped-down depiction of the repressed and methodical Stagg.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2026

Gadd explains he thought it was interesting to show the two repressed men living in Glasgow, a city that has gone through so much change.

From BBC ● Apr. 19, 2026

Inside Iran, opposition figures have been repressed and imprisoned, as was the case with jailed 2023 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi.

From Barron's ● Mar. 4, 2026

Still, in the silence of the night, when the city lost its stage-set normality and operetta peace, she was besieged by the agonizing thoughts she had repressed during the day.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende

These forces effectively run much of the economy and maintain internal order, repressing internal dissent and opposition.

From BBC ● May 22, 2026

People fed up with rolling blackouts have staged sporadic protests in recent days, banging pots and shouting slogans against the government, rare demonstrations in a country known for repressing dissent.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 22, 2026

And in January, Justice Minister Gerald Darmanin recommended they "consider handling cases from the perspective of repressing human trafficking".

From Barron's ● Dec. 17, 2025

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

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 19, 2025

The sickness inside him grew, and at once, a whole slew of thoughts he’d been repressing sprang free.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray