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
The oppressor cannot look to the oppressed and go, "How do we fix this?"
From Salon • Feb. 22, 2024
“Somehow this narrative got mixed up that Jews are an oppressor rather than an oppressee, and I don’t know how that narrative came about,” Mark said.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 20, 2023
“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
We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry
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Every Falling Star
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A Night Divided
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Vocabulary from Readings 2, Unit 3
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