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
The tensions on display at APsA—between flexibility and rigidity, between freedom and repression—date to the dawn of psychoanalysis and were present, too, in its founder.
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Maggie Doherty, Harper's Magazine, 28 Feb. 2025
Their early acts of truth-telling — like refusing to participate in sham elections or other regime fictions — will exact an initial price as the government amps up its means of repression.
—Bret Stephens, The Mercury News, 27 Feb. 2025
Neorealism emerged in the immediate aftermath of World War II as a response to the escapism and repression of Mussolini era cinema.
—Beandrea July, IndieWire, 7 Mar. 2025
The sociologist Asef Bayat has documented the impact of everyday resistance against the Islamic Republic’s repression, gradually challenging both the clerical establishment and traditional patriarchal beliefs.
—Narges Mohammadi, TIME, 7 Mar. 2025
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Maggie Doherty, Harper's Magazine, 28 Feb. 2025
Their early acts of truth-telling — like refusing to participate in sham elections or other regime fictions — will exact an initial price as the government amps up its means of repression.
—Bret Stephens, The Mercury News, 27 Feb. 2025
Neorealism emerged in the immediate aftermath of World War II as a response to the escapism and repression of Mussolini era cinema.
—Beandrea July, IndieWire, 7 Mar. 2025
The sociologist Asef Bayat has documented the impact of everyday resistance against the Islamic Republic’s repression, gradually challenging both the clerical establishment and traditional patriarchal beliefs.
—Narges Mohammadi, TIME, 7 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for repression
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The chance that American attacks on Houthis could prompt attacks on Saudi Arabia and a renewal of the kingdom’s brutal war in Yemen was a chief concern of the Biden administration, a prime reason that White House operated with a degree of restraint in its strikes on Houthi targets.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
26 Mar. 2025
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Sullivan, 56, was charged with first-degree unlawful restraint, cruelty to persons and first-degree reckless endangerment.—
Livi Stanford,
Hartford Courant,
25 Mar. 2025
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That discipline has helped broaden the National Rally’s appeal, especially in the aftermath of Macron’s defeat in the 2024 European elections.—
Thomas Adamson,
Los Angeles Times,
1 Apr. 2025
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The special section of Art Bulletin—which, as the discipline’s flagship journal, constitutes a semiofficial statement about AI’s importance in the field—devoted the majority of its space to critical commentary about the application of computer vision to works of art.—
Sonja Drimmer,
Artforum,
1 Apr. 2025
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So while dark energy seems linked to this suppression, this mysterious force still can't solely explain why the formation of large cosmic structures is slowed in the modern universe.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
27 Mar. 2025
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The fire suppression efforts involve 13 engines and three water tenders.—
CA WILDFIRE BOT,
Sacramento Bee,
25 Mar. 2025
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However, there are widespread inhibitions against the use of fast chargers, as they’re widely believed to reduce the total lifespan of an EV battery – although there is currently little data to support the theory.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
20 Mar. 2025
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This piece of information is delivered in a nightclub, a Dionysian space where the whole point is to lose your inhibitions.—
Matt Zoller Seitz,
Vulture,
17 Mar. 2025
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“Repression.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/repression. Accessed 5 Apr. 2025.
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