oppressiveness
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Although the strange oppressiveness of collective adulation isn’t new, it is becoming far more ubiquitous – and insidious – in the attention economy.
From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026
The parable Mitchell constructs actually does have broader philosophical underpinnings: It seems intended to evoke the oppressiveness of economic hierarchies.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 15, 2021
Our own intelligence about the oppressiveness of the kind of society which would like to forget us along with other historical ‘mistakes’ should give black people a unique force in effecting change in America.
From New York Times ● Jun. 13, 2020
It’s a space, says Silton, “that has this sense of oppressiveness inside.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 2017
The dew-point is a matter of really vital consequence in the question of the oppressiveness of the atmosphere or its reverse.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 3 "Destructors" to "Diameter" by Various
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