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oppressor

[uh-pres-er] / əˈprɛs ər /


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In a pan-Indian context, English is an equalizer, not an oppressor.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 3, 2025

To keep them, he said, meant treating the victim the same as the oppressor.

From BBC • Dec. 19, 2024

Evidence of enjoyment of life directly rebuts the central proposition of the oppressor – namely, that the oppressed is inferior.

From Salon • Aug. 10, 2024

“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

Was this her idea of “throwing off the yoke of oppressor man?”

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns




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