irrepressible
adjective
ir·re·press·ible
ˌir-i-ˈpre-sə-bəl 
: impossible to repress, restrain, or control
irrepressible curiosity
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She has an irrepressible sense of humor.
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Anna Lee C. Iijima, Bon Appétit, 22 Jan. 2025
For those who know Celine, two things repeatedly come to mind: her irrepressible smile and her incorrigible fight.
—Megan Feringa, The Athletic, 2 Jan. 2025
And yet, despite Nosferatu’s irrepressible gloom, there’s something undeniably … cozy about Eggers’s 19th-century Central Europe.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 25 Dec. 2024
Another quarter, another bullet likely dodged for the seemingly irrepressible U.S. economy.
—Jeff Cox, CNBC, 29 Oct. 2024
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“Irrepressible.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/irrepressible. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.
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irrepressible
adjective
ir·re·press·ible
ˌir-i-ˈpres-ə-bəl
: impossible to repress or control
irrepressible curiosity
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