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Recent Examples of repressive
But in December, Assad’s repressive regime – which had always denied capturing or killing Tice – collapsed in an instant.
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Rob Picheta, CNN Money, 28 Oct. 2025
In less than one electoral cycle, Maduro eliminated all democratic traces and turned the system into one of the most repressive, poverty-producing, and corrupt machines in the world.
—Javier Corrales, Time, 27 Oct. 2025
Petro has repeatedly defended his policy, which moves away from a repressive approach and prioritizes reaching agreements with growers of coca leaf - the raw material for cocaine - to encourage them to switch to other crops, pursuing major drug lords and combating money laundering.
—NPR, 24 Oct. 2025
Mitigate risk, learn and innovate The success rate of nonviolent civil resistance is declining while repressive tactics by autocrats are evolving.
—Shelley Inglis, The Conversation, 19 Oct. 2025
From this conspiratorialism have flowed years of censorship, data localization, online-speech criminalization, and other digitally repressive actions by the Kremlin.
—Justin Sherman, The Atlantic, 11 Oct. 2025
The really repressive power of the state to stop alternative ideas from coming into circulation, from being debated and from having the chance to build their case.
—Pamela Avila, USA Today, 10 Oct. 2025
In prison, Molina uses his imagination to retreat into the comfort of his favorite movie, starring fictitious silver screen diva Ingrid Luna (Jennifer Lopez, to get through the horrors of Argentina’s repressive regime.
—Nicole Acevedo, NBC news, 9 Oct. 2025
Its durability is in large part due to Wilde’s sneaky indictment of the repressive culture that forced Dorian to keep his true self hidden, locked away in a closet.
—Samantha Allen, Them., 7 Oct. 2025
Rob Picheta, CNN Money, 28 Oct. 2025
In less than one electoral cycle, Maduro eliminated all democratic traces and turned the system into one of the most repressive, poverty-producing, and corrupt machines in the world.
—Javier Corrales, Time, 27 Oct. 2025
Petro has repeatedly defended his policy, which moves away from a repressive approach and prioritizes reaching agreements with growers of coca leaf - the raw material for cocaine - to encourage them to switch to other crops, pursuing major drug lords and combating money laundering.
—NPR, 24 Oct. 2025
Mitigate risk, learn and innovate The success rate of nonviolent civil resistance is declining while repressive tactics by autocrats are evolving.
—Shelley Inglis, The Conversation, 19 Oct. 2025
From this conspiratorialism have flowed years of censorship, data localization, online-speech criminalization, and other digitally repressive actions by the Kremlin.
—Justin Sherman, The Atlantic, 11 Oct. 2025
The really repressive power of the state to stop alternative ideas from coming into circulation, from being debated and from having the chance to build their case.
—Pamela Avila, USA Today, 10 Oct. 2025
In prison, Molina uses his imagination to retreat into the comfort of his favorite movie, starring fictitious silver screen diva Ingrid Luna (Jennifer Lopez, to get through the horrors of Argentina’s repressive regime.
—Nicole Acevedo, NBC news, 9 Oct. 2025
Its durability is in large part due to Wilde’s sneaky indictment of the repressive culture that forced Dorian to keep his true self hidden, locked away in a closet.
—Samantha Allen, Them., 7 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for repressive
Adjective
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That’s the image projected by Chicago’s pragmatic, unemotional manager, Craig Counsell, who continues to get lustily booed in his hometown.—
Patrick Mooney,
New York Times,
7 Oct. 2025
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He is learned, frail, accomplished, absent, selfish and unemotional.—
Joe Otterson,
Variety,
2 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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The Horned Frogs could’ve taken Utah’s spot on the ballot, but once again, TCU was unimpressive in its win over West Virginia.—
Steven Johnson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
26 Oct. 2025
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If the report comes out, it is expected to show that employers added 50,000 jobs in September, unimpressive but up from a meager 22,000 in August, according to a survey of economists by the data firm FactSet.—
Orianna Rosa Royle,
Fortune,
30 Sep. 2025
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“Repressive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/repressive. Accessed 5 Nov. 2025.
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