oppress

Example Sentences

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"These rules lack humanity and rationality, and they oppress us every day."

From Barron's • Jan. 9, 2026

“You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 30, 2024

But that doesn’t mean she’s motivated by a desire to oppress.

From Slate • Jul. 29, 2024

This is the hard truth: There is no such thing as pure blood, and no cultural group or human being has the right to oppress another.

From Salon • Jan. 1, 2024

From the moment that Hitler took power in Germany and began to oppress the Jews, I tried to keep track of what was happening.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright