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  • s  characterized by or showing the suppression of impulses or emotions
    their reactions were partly the product of pent-up emotions

  • Aman thinks cussing is socially importantIt releases pent-up emotions and reveals crucial information about culture and psychology.
  • The effect is that an increasingly pent-up river rises higher, moves faster downstream, and is more prone to back up like a clogged drain, increasing the pressure on unfortified .
  • YouTube had tapped into something that appears on no business plan: the lonely, pressurized, pent-up video subconscious of America.
News & Articles

  • Pent-Up Stress Could Harm Health of Middle-Aged Women
    Title: Pent-Up Stress Could Harm Health of Middle-Aged Women Category: Health News Created: 6/7/2013 4:36:00 PM Last Editorial Review: 6/10/2013 12:00:00 AM
    June 11, 2013 - MedicineNet.com
  • UN envoy: 'Streets are heating up' in south Yemen
    UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. envoy to Yemen warned Tuesday that "the streets are heating up" in the country's restive south and pent-up resentment over more than two decades of unaddressed grievances is reaching "a tipping point."
    June 11, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News
  • Valley drivers purchasing more cars
    Pent-up demand and new products are driving sales at car dealerships across the Valley, a local sales director said.
    June 10, 2013 - KTAR 92.3 Phoenix
Quotes

  • Terry Lundgren in USA Today
    We all know that September and October were not great months, so there is some pent-up demand,Lundgren said. "We feel encouraged by the early signs."
  • Barack Obama in Atlanta Journal Constitution
    We've got a tragic history when it comes to race in this country. We've got a lot of pent-up anger and bitterness and misunderstanding. ...... This country wants to move beyond these kinds of things,Obama said.
  • Jim Newberry in TIME
    These aren't luxury items,Mayor Jim Newberry said. "These requests represent pent-up needs for the basics."

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