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Smithline said actor Esmé Bianco, a woman in the accusers group who reached a settlement with Warner in January, also insisted she was repressing memories.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 23, 2023

It becomes this turning inside out of the very thing that was repressing you.

From Salon • Mar. 17, 2022

In previous conflicts, the United States and its allies have made extensive use of air power to compel a foreign leader who was repressing his opposition to come to the negotiating table.

From New York Times • Aug. 30, 2013

Even as Kipling was repressing his doubts about the nature of the war and the death of his only son, there was a sort of revolution of poets at the other end of the country.

From Slate • Nov. 13, 2011

She was repressing something that had preceded him.

From The River's End by Curwood, James Oliver