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Examples
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The first festival saw a lot of long-suppressed political views that erupted in the stage.
Theater Reflects Singapore's Current State Jason Chow 2011
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After recovering a horrific, long-suppressed memory, Trace finally copes with the fallout from her brutal, bizarre childhood.
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If one can believe that she has perhaps some iota of rationality left in her brain and that the call had a strategic purpose and was not just a spontaneous moment of venom and long-suppressed rage, then the picture becomes a little clearer.
Clarence Lusane: Sold Brothers: The Bizzaro World of Williams and Thomas Clarence Lusane 2010
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But it can also catch us off guard to be back in familiar physical and social contexts, suddenly opening the floodgates to long-suppressed emotions and relationships.
Sam Sommers: 'Tis the Season to Notice Situations Sam Sommers 2011
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If one can believe that she has perhaps some iota of rationality left in her brain and that the call had a strategic purpose and was not just a spontaneous moment of venom and long-suppressed rage, then the picture becomes a little clearer.
Clarence Lusane: Sold Brothers: The Bizzaro World of Williams and Thomas Clarence Lusane 2010
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Nahda's expected victory will put to test claims that the region's long-suppressed Islamist parties are ready for political prime time as responsible pluralistic democrats.
Tunisia Vote Stands as Test for the Region Charles Levinson 2011
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But with demonstrators driven by deep resentments and long-suppressed rage, police have been unable to squelch the nascent movement.
Egyptian protesters feel world has passed them by Griff Witte 2011
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But with demonstrators driven by deep resentments and long-suppressed rage, police have been unable to squelch the nascent movement.
Egyptian protesters feel world has passed them by Griff Witte 2011
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As I wrote at the time, one of the most interesting and, in my view, significant aspects of what has been occurring in Iran is the way that a long-suppressed Islamist critique of the Iranian regime (and of the Khomeinist theory of “rule of the cleric” that underpins it) seems at last to have found a vehicle in the protest movement now being led by Mousavi and Rafsanjani.
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But it can also catch us off guard to be back in familiar physical and social contexts, suddenly opening the floodgates to long-suppressed emotions and relationships.
Sam Sommers: 'Tis the Season to Notice Situations Sam Sommers 2011
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