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

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 15, 2026

Although he had tried to repress it, the resentment he felt toward his mother and brother had grown since their deaths.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden

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

But on the earth, the solid crust forcibly represses the steam gathering beneath until it has accumulated strength for an explosion, while there is no such restraining power that we know of in the sun.

From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Clerke, Agnes M. (Agnes Mary)

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

Coop’s larcenous ways awaken something in him that the straight-laced corporate life had repressed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 12, 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

And all week long he chortled with repressed delight at the officers’ club.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

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 also exaggerate the fear that is already there, especially in characters repressing their inner demons.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2025

My entrance had undone his work of appeasing Laertes, and his face twitched with the effort of repressing his anger.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein