repressed
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We’ll never know, and neither will they, hence their cyclical dance in the novel, through repressed trauma and lost possibility.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 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
Culture writer Sarah Carson called the morning travel drink the moment many repressed Brits “are finally free to escape.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
Our legs refuse to move, our hands tremble, our bodies are a thin skin stretched painfully over repressed madness, over an almost irresistible, bursting roar.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
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