How to Use repression in a Sentence

repression

noun
  • They survived 60 years of political repression.
  • But the blossoming was short-lived, and in 2016 repression was in full swing.
    Masha Borak, WIRED, 2 Nov. 2022
  • There’s the quiet of peace and serenity, and the quiet of repression and shame.
    Jessica Kiang, Variety, 12 Mar. 2022
  • But repression may not have been the only factor in the movement’s demise.
    Christina Knight, The Atlantic, 23 Mar. 2024
  • In some cases, the repression took on more extreme forms.
    Scott Johnson, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 June 2023
  • But those hopes dimmed as the protests fizzled out, subsumed by a wave of arrests and mass repression.
    Simon Shuster, TIME, 14 May 2024
  • Two decades of state repression have not denied this new wave of anger its bloody agency.
    Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 23 Mar. 2024
  • In this way, repression and chaos suit each other, hand in glove—at least so long as that hand is engaged in the writing process.
    Hannah Gold, Harper's Magazine, 3 Nov. 2023
  • The second was under the Brigade for the repression of economic crime, the official said.
    Kevin Shalvey, ABC News, 20 June 2023
  • The series turns on repression: Franco’s regime’s, Airam’s, Spain’s….
    John Hopewell, Variety, 17 Apr. 2023
  • The report breaks down the repression into three distinct stages.
    Anna Schecter, NBC News, 25 Apr. 2022
  • The threat to Russia’s free press, which has dealt with years of repression, may be existential.
    Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 9 Mar. 2022
  • Stunned by the scale of repression, the study’s authors saw fit to compare Ortega’s Nicaragua to Germany under the Nazis.
    TIME, 2 May 2024
  • That government support has led to fierce repression of any protests against the pipeline.
    David Vetter, Forbes, 13 Apr. 2022
  • This form of expression feels so much more honest to me, stacking repression on top of humor on top of x, y, and z.
    Brandon Sanchez, Vulture, 2 Aug. 2023
  • The bar hums with accents from all corners of Russia, as newcomers fret about the repression at home.
    Conor Sheils, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Mar. 2022
  • Yet the defining symbol of the protests has been the holding up of a blank sheet of paper, a fill-in-your-own-punchline to the absurd joke that is Chinese state repression.
    Christopher Rea and Jeffrey Wasserstrom, CNN, 1 Dec. 2022
  • For now, despite fears of greater repression, the opposition crowds have remained out on the streets.
    Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2024
  • Less explored was the role of the Constitution, which has always been more friend than foe to the American way of repression.
    Corey Robin, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2023
  • One of these countries is Turkey, which for years was seen as a safe haven for Uyghurs fleeing Chinese repression.
    Keir Simmons, NBC News, 10 Aug. 2023
  • China’s campaign of repression against the Uighurs is not confined to Xinjiang.
    Time, 24 Mar. 2022
  • And the people are often the primary victims of the CCP's aggression and repression.
    CBS News, 26 Feb. 2023
  • The revolutionary courts were key to Khamenei’s repression of the Green Movement.
    Miriam Berger, Washington Post, 12 Nov. 2022
  • During his final statement to the court a week ago, Kara-Murza said the trial had turned the clock back to the 1930s, the height of Stalinist political repression.
    Robyn Dixon, Washington Post, 17 Apr. 2023
  • During his final statement to the court a week ago, Kara-Murza said that the trial had turned the clock back to the 1930s, the height of Stalinist political repressions.
    Robyn Dixon, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Apr. 2023
  • And that will not stop us in any way from pushing back and speaking out on Iran's brutal repression of its citizens and its women.
    CBS News, 25 Sep. 2022
  • It is called financial repression and that repression is what has killed the U.K. stock market.
    Clem Chambers, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2024
  • For the comic payoff to work, Elinor has to be a master of repression, bottling up all emotion until that point.
    John Lahr, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2022
  • Maduro's claim of victory spurred an eruption of protests across Venezuela, prompting his regime to engage in a wave of violent repression.
    Greg Wehner, Fox News, 4 Sep. 2024
  • Many of the group have since left Cuba, alleging government repression.
    Reuters, NBC News, 19 Sep. 2024

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