repression
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"I certainly think in my life I've experienced challenges that have come from repression."
From BBC • Apr. 19, 2026
In 2010, Tunisians angry with their government over rising unemployment, vastly unequal socioeconomic development, and political repression took to the streets under the banner “bread, freedom, national dignity.”
From Barron's • Apr. 10, 2026
But the opposition says Zimbabwe is seeing a new wave of repression.
From BBC • Apr. 7, 2026
The country’s most vocal activists fled the island after Cuba’s repression of the nationwide protest on July 11, 2021 — the ones in which Duannis Taboada marched.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 29, 2026
I spoke and echoed his sentiments: clearly, the repression of any one liberation group was repression against all liberation groups.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
Vocabulary lists containing repression
"The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin
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"The Story of an Hour"
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., "Beyond Vietnam" (1967)
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