as in uncontrollable
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Recent Examples of irrepressible
For those who know Celine, two things repeatedly come to mind: her irrepressible smile and her incorrigible fight.
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Megan Feringa, The Athletic, 2 Jan. 2025
And yet, despite Nosferatu’s irrepressible gloom, there’s something undeniably … cozy about Eggers’s 19th-century Central Europe.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 25 Dec. 2024
Another quarter, another bullet likely dodged for the seemingly irrepressible U.S. economy.
—Jeff Cox, CNBC, 29 Oct. 2024
For the travel industry, 2024 was the year when live tourism exploded as an irrepressible economy mover, as millions of travelers planned trips around music concerts, sports events and natural phenomena like solar eclipses and meteor showers.
—Suzanne Rowan Kelleher, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
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Megan Feringa, The Athletic, 2 Jan. 2025
And yet, despite Nosferatu’s irrepressible gloom, there’s something undeniably … cozy about Eggers’s 19th-century Central Europe.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 25 Dec. 2024
Another quarter, another bullet likely dodged for the seemingly irrepressible U.S. economy.
—Jeff Cox, CNBC, 29 Oct. 2024
For the travel industry, 2024 was the year when live tourism exploded as an irrepressible economy mover, as millions of travelers planned trips around music concerts, sports events and natural phenomena like solar eclipses and meteor showers.
—Suzanne Rowan Kelleher, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for irrepressible
Adjective
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In higher elevations lightning sometimes strikes dry vegetation, which sparks a fire that can easily become uncontrollable, particularly when fueled by dry winds.—
N'dea Yancey-Bragg,
USA TODAY,
8 Jan. 2025
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Big, sometimes uncontrollable emotions are a normal part of growing up, and gentle parents at least try to not dismiss their or get annoyed with their kids when those challenging moments come up.—
Alex Vance,
Parents,
27 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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The project takes its toll Christiansen is the first to admit that receiving that lesson from Erebus triggered his most obsessive qualities.—
Jason Fanelli,
Rolling Stone,
1 Feb. 2025
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Defense attorneys argued that all of this happened because the whole family suffers from obsessive compulsive disorder, 9News reported.—
KC Baker,
People.com,
31 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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But if the humor doesn’t land as solidly as before, the more serious subplots, centered on Mo’s feelings of disconnection from his roots and Yusra’s compulsive doomscrolling about violence in her native Palestine, carry the show.—
Inkoo Kang,
The New Yorker,
31 Jan. 2025
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Like the compulsive twisting of a pencil into a sharpener, Khatami tightens the narrative rope to excruciating effect with a series of ominous foreshadowings.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
25 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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His staff shielded him from spontaneous encounters with the media, stepping in to lead him away from unscripted situations.—
Nolan Finley,
Twin Cities,
31 Jan. 2025
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Think back to that love story where everything felt spontaneous and carefree — this could feel just like that but with a deeper, more romantic flair.—
Valerie Mesa,
People.com,
26 Jan. 2025
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