oppressor

Example Sentences

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In a pan-Indian context, English is an equalizer, not an oppressor.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 3, 2025

To keep them, he said, meant treating the victim the same as the oppressor.

From BBC • Dec. 19, 2024

“Daddy was always very proud of his time in the Army, even though he later understood and saw the United States military as an oppressor of our people,” says his daughter, Noemí Sánchez González.

From National Geographic • Nov. 10, 2023

It was a tool of their rebellion but also a tool to oppress their mother, who was their oppressor.

From Salon • Oct. 27, 2023

Students did not want to learn and teachers did not want to teach in the language of the oppressor.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela