as in restraint
the checking of one's true feelings and impulses when dealing with others
learned that suppression of her angry feelings didn't necessarily make them go away
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Recent Examples of suppression
In this brazen act of political suppression, the Turkish government has taken a momentous step toward full-fledged autocracy.
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Gonul Tol, Foreign Affairs, 21 Mar. 2025
Here, of course, there was no suppression of their protest, no political obstacle to public discussion, and yet there was a stream of denials, deflections, confusions, and outright falsehoods issuing from the Trump Administration.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2025
What is clear, however, is that his detention has become a rallying cry against the broader abuses of the immigration detention system, which critics argue has been transformed into a tool for political suppression.
—Andy J. Semotiuk, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2025
What voter suppression tactics are being used here?
—Richard Boykin, Chicago Tribune, 10 Mar. 2025
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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.—
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Sullivan, 56, was charged with first-degree unlawful restraint, cruelty to persons and first-degree reckless endangerment.—
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The decision was also a relief for the hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans living in the United States who were grappling with the uncertainty of returning to a country where many of them could face political persecution and repression from Nicolas Maduro’s government.—
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Authoritarian organizations do not yield gracefully and usually react with violent repression.—
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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.—
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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.—
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Those raising awareness of the Arabic Facebook posts feel no such inhibition.—
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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.—
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“Suppression.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/suppression. Accessed 12 Apr. 2025.
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