repression
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Memorial was founded in the late 1980s to document victims of Soviet-era political repression during which millions of people perished in the Gulag penal system.
From Barron's • Apr. 9, 2026
But the opposition says Zimbabwe is seeing a new wave of repression.
From BBC • Apr. 7, 2026
The United Nations has urged Burkina to reverse the decision to ban political parties and stop the repression of civic space.
From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026
The country’s most vocal activists fled the island after Cuba’s repression of the nationwide protest on July 11, 2021 — the ones in which Duannis Taboada marched.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 29, 2026
It is a tragic cycle, condemning us to ever deeper inequality, and in the long run, almost no one benefits but the agents of repression themselves.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
Vocabulary lists containing repression
"The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin
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"The Story of an Hour"
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., "Beyond Vietnam" (1967)
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