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Recent Examples of repressive
Black South Africans detested the Springboks as a symbol of the brutally violent, repressive apartheid regime.
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Mary Crossan, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Vineland’s repressive villain Brock Vond ends ferried to hell by two Eastside vatos locos, while the hippie father Zoyd reunites with his daughter at an anarchist family picnic.
—John Lopez, HollywoodReporter, 6 Sep. 2025
Dissenting voices Twelve months after Maduro’s disputed victory in the presidential election – a vote in which the government did not publish a final vote count, and which prompted a vast international outcry – the government’s repressive machinery continues.
—Andrew Raine, CNN Money, 4 Sep. 2025
The decision leaves about 257,000 Venezuelans, including many in South Florida, vulnerable to being deported to a homeland deep in crisis and under the repressive governance of leader Nicolas Maduro.
—Antonio Maria Delgado, Miami Herald, 3 Sep. 2025
So Beijing has relied on a sophisticated cocktail of repressive policies to suppress potential dissent in Tibet, including placing three out of every four Tibetan students in colonial-style boarding schools and installing mass surveillance systems in schools and places of worship.
—Tenzin Dorjee, Foreign Affairs, 1 Sep. 2025
In jurisdictions as disparate as Thailand, India, Pakistan, Antigua and Barbuda, Eswatini, and Zimbabwe, governments are deploying repressive legal interpretations to silence free speech.
—Stephen Townley, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
Kate Riley’s perceptive debut novel, Ruth, depicts the life of a woman in a repressive sect without an ounce of sanctimony.
—Hillary Kelly, The Atlantic, 20 Aug. 2025
Mary Crossan, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Vineland’s repressive villain Brock Vond ends ferried to hell by two Eastside vatos locos, while the hippie father Zoyd reunites with his daughter at an anarchist family picnic.
—John Lopez, HollywoodReporter, 6 Sep. 2025
Dissenting voices Twelve months after Maduro’s disputed victory in the presidential election – a vote in which the government did not publish a final vote count, and which prompted a vast international outcry – the government’s repressive machinery continues.
—Andrew Raine, CNN Money, 4 Sep. 2025
The decision leaves about 257,000 Venezuelans, including many in South Florida, vulnerable to being deported to a homeland deep in crisis and under the repressive governance of leader Nicolas Maduro.
—Antonio Maria Delgado, Miami Herald, 3 Sep. 2025
So Beijing has relied on a sophisticated cocktail of repressive policies to suppress potential dissent in Tibet, including placing three out of every four Tibetan students in colonial-style boarding schools and installing mass surveillance systems in schools and places of worship.
—Tenzin Dorjee, Foreign Affairs, 1 Sep. 2025
In jurisdictions as disparate as Thailand, India, Pakistan, Antigua and Barbuda, Eswatini, and Zimbabwe, governments are deploying repressive legal interpretations to silence free speech.
—Stephen Townley, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
Kate Riley’s perceptive debut novel, Ruth, depicts the life of a woman in a repressive sect without an ounce of sanctimony.
—Hillary Kelly, The Atlantic, 20 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for repressive
Adjective
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Up until the 17th century, people thought dogs were little more than unemotional machines that could not feel pain, either emotional or physical.—
Dawn Kovell,
Mercury News,
19 Aug. 2025
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Becton appeared calm and unemotional about the situation, the affidavit states.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
25 July 2025
Adjective
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Hyundai Motors India’s public offering was oversubscribed more than two times, largely by institutional investors, while retail demand was unimpressive.—
Priyanka Salve,
CNBC,
29 Aug. 2025
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Even our unimpressive ancestors, which appear as tiny flukelike fossil smudges in the rocks, and which bear the first tentative hints of a backbone, make a cameo here.—
Peter Brannen
August 28,
Literary Hub,
28 Aug. 2025
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“Repressive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/repressive. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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