repress

Give in to your feelings and risk your safety; repress your true self and you might survive.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026

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

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

He thought of Wednesday’s comment and smiled, despite himself: Shadow had heard too many people telling each other not to repress their feelings, to let their emotions out, let the pain go.

From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman

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

Film critic Robin Wood famously argued that "the true subject of the horror genre is the struggle for recognition of all that our civilization represses and oppresses."

From Salon ● Jan. 30, 2023

Hope excites the mind to exertion; fear represses all activity.

From Practical Education, Volume I by Edgeworth, Maria

You contextualize learned behavior; you contextualize trauma and things they learned that make them these repressed adults.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2026

The uprising was repressed, leading to an exodus of two million Kurds to Iran and Turkey.

From Barron's ● Mar. 7, 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

But seeing the show, in which two athletes enter a loving relationship, stirred repressed feelings.

From BBC ● Jan. 31, 2026

My lips trembled but I repressed my tears.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

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

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

Thus, many people judge that a wise prince must cunningly foster some hostile action, whenever he has the opportunity, so that in repressing it his greatness will emerge all the more.

From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli