oppressing

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The mayor fumbled when asked in a radio show about the Uyghurs, a predominantly Muslim group that China has been accused of oppressing, saying “What’s a Uygher?”

From Seattle Times • Aug. 29, 2023

"You can't recruit people from the same group you are oppressing on a day-to-day basis," he says.

From BBC • Apr. 21, 2023

She said she would do everything within the EU framework to reach the point of imposing sanctions against those responsible for oppressing women in Iran.

From Reuters • Sep. 29, 2022

I want to make a film about how our society is oppressing itself.

From Salon • Mar. 3, 2022

This priest, Bartolomé de las Casas, suggested using imported African laborers instead of oppressing the native people.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis