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How to pronounce repress in American English

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  1. seek to repress and silence their people.

    State Department

  2. can get those percentages up to something that begins to really repress.

    CDC

  3. I'm pretty blunt and pretty frank about the fact that societies that repress journalists

    The Obama White House

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