oppression

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A complex, funny, plangently sorrowful Pygmalion story is enacted between two people who are connected but also held apart by their separate histories of oppression.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026

Schumer in his statement, noted that “Iran’s malign regional activities, nuclear ambitions, and harsh oppression of the Iranian people demands American strength, resolve, regional coordination, and strategic clarity.”

From Slate • Mar. 4, 2026

The 53-year-old was made a Nobel laureate in 2023 for her activism against female oppression in Iran.

From BBC • Feb. 8, 2026

"My whole family is over there in Venezuela, and honestly, it's tough. Really, really tough, everything that's happening there. All the hardships they're facing...all the oppression."

From Barron's • Jan. 20, 2026

Stendahl drank it in, the dreariness, the oppression, the fetid vapors, the whole “atmosphere,” so delicately contrived and fitted.

From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury