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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
repress .
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Examples
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War clouds darken the landscape as the Revolutionary Guard represses its own people.
Joe Peyronnin: 2012: What Can We Expect from the Year Ahead? Joe Peyronnin 2012
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But Hassan warned that if Mubarak represses the pro-democracy movement or fails to carry out a democratic transition, both Egyptians and Arabs around the region will blame the Obama administration.
Mubarak unleashes chaos Jackson Diehl 2011
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"Obviously you see a regime that represses its own people and spreads terror far and wide," Netanyahu told NBC's Meet the Press in an interview from his Jerusalem office, repeating Israel's longstanding position towards an Iranian leadership which has vowed the destruction of the Jewish state.
Iran Election Live-Blogging (Sunday June 21) The Huffington Post News Team 2009
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War clouds darken the landscape as the Revolutionary Guard represses its own people.
Joe Peyronnin: 2012: What Can We Expect from the Year Ahead? Joe Peyronnin 2012
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War clouds darken the landscape as the Revolutionary Guard represses its own people.
Joe Peyronnin: 2012: What Can We Expect from the Year Ahead? Joe Peyronnin 2012
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And the government systematically represses religious freedom.
Steve Swerdlow: Some Straight Talk for a Washington Visitor Steve Swerdlow 2011
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Yoani is an extraordinary woman who has repeatedly overcome great obstacles and risked serious consequences to make her voice heard, as she struggles against a dictatorship that systematically represses freedom of expression.
Thor Halvorssen: Yoani Sánchez Forbidden by Cuba to Collect Her Award; CEPOS Freedom Prize Presented in Absentia Thor Halvorssen 2011
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As a chain of paper birds flocks over the sleeping child, the mother brushes a strand of hair from her forehead, represses the lump in her throat, and kisses her child lightly.
A Life in the Day James Claffey 2011
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Or is it because he represses who he is when he writes, and his books and stories and essays are not really an outgrowth of who he is at all, but shallow work to move readers and separate them from their book-buying dollars?
"What do YOU do when your favorite author turns out to be a puppy-kicker?" Roger Sutton 2009
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War clouds darken the landscape as the Revolutionary Guard represses its own people.
Joe Peyronnin: 2012: What Can We Expect from the Year Ahead? Joe Peyronnin 2012
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