oppression

Example Sentences

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It was relayed as well to her GoFundMe page, which asked donors to help cover her ongoing daily care costs while decrying the need for such charity as “ableist oppression.”

From Los Angeles Times

Spend much time in any of these disciplines’ classrooms and you’ll hear such phrases as “resisting systems of oppression,” “advancing social justice” and “preparing students to become agents of social change.”

From The Wall Street Journal

The haunting song - touching on 90s apartheid in South Africa and oppression - reached number four in the UK charts in 1987.

From BBC

Is it worth considering when people unite against tyranny and oppression?

From Los Angeles Times

But she warned that the Taliban administration's "systematic oppression of women" was not confined to the country.

From Barron's