as in restraint
the checking of one's true feelings and impulses when dealing with others
psychologists talking about the repression of anger and how it affects one's health
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Recent Examples of repression
This project became both an ethnographic and photographic study of how women inhabit, resist, and reimagine their roles in a context denned by deep contradictions – beauty and chaos, devotion and repression, tradition and transformation.
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Vogue, 5 Sep. 2025
Instead, Lee turns it into a multipronged metaphor that communicates the difficulty of resisting repression, as well as Shinhye’s personal struggle to see her ideas, desires, and self clearly.
—Lily Meyer, The Atlantic, 5 Sep. 2025
After nationwide repression of unions, wages fell more in markets where unions had previously delivered larger gains.
—Teresa Ghilarducci, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Though radically different in their approaches, the two films highlight how the same mechanisms of violence and repression that spurred Russia through the Chechen conflicts are being reproduced today.
—Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 31 Aug. 2025
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Vogue, 5 Sep. 2025
Instead, Lee turns it into a multipronged metaphor that communicates the difficulty of resisting repression, as well as Shinhye’s personal struggle to see her ideas, desires, and self clearly.
—Lily Meyer, The Atlantic, 5 Sep. 2025
After nationwide repression of unions, wages fell more in markets where unions had previously delivered larger gains.
—Teresa Ghilarducci, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Though radically different in their approaches, the two films highlight how the same mechanisms of violence and repression that spurred Russia through the Chechen conflicts are being reproduced today.
—Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 31 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for repression
Noun
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Far from abusing its discretion, the district court has exercised care and restraint in managing discovery, affording 'careful consideration' to the government's assertion of privilege.—
James Bickerton,
MSNBC Newsweek,
20 Sep. 2025
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The most conspicuously comedic turns, like Sul’s or Yamamoto’s, wouldn’t work half as well if not complemented by judicious restraint from others.—
Dennis Harvey,
Variety,
20 Sep. 2025
Noun
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That sequencing discipline — contracts and notaries first, token sale last — is what turns digital claims into enforceable assets.—
Sean Lee,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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Dividend growers also tend to be leaders in their subsectors, having demonstrated capital discipline in terms of reinvesting in their business and generating stockholder payouts, said Matt Quinlan, portfolio manager at Franklin Templeton.—
Michelle Fox,
CNBC,
16 Sep. 2025
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In the years following the murder of George Floyd, despite the pledges and proclamations supposedly supporting racial equity and justice, many creators reported censorship and suppression online.—
Janice Gassam Asare,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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Any foreign order demanding the removal or suppression of such speech faces major constitutional hurdles.—
Robert Alexander,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Sep. 2025
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This also supports the idea that swearing can momentarily activate mental states that reduce inhibition and allow the body and mind to perform at a higher level.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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Lockwood’s lack of inhibition can lead to trouble.—
Alexandra Schwartz,
New Yorker,
25 Aug. 2025
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“Repression.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/repression. Accessed 22 Sep. 2025.
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