repressive
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Ms. Winger struggles to make these demure, repressive qualities come across naturally—and frankly fails.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
To decide what to fund, staffers with deep expertise typically pored over reams of information on abuses under the most repressive regimes and held an open competition to fund groups to work in those countries.
From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2026
Levine Cava, the Miami-Dade mayor, said her Venezuelan constituents—Miami has the largest Venezuelan exile community in the U.S.—fear returning to a country where the same repressive regime remains in power.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026
Iran is consistently ranked as one of the most repressive countries in the world for press freedom.
From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2026
But the hard facts were that fifty years of nonviolence had brought the African people nothing but more repressive legislation, and fewer and fewer rights.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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