oppressor

Example Sentences

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In both his realms, James worked to solidify the Reformation while facing attacks from the Puritans as an oppressor and from Rome as a heretic.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025

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

From BBC • Dec. 19, 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

It was a tool of their rebellion but also a tool to oppress their mother, who was their oppressor.

From Salon • Oct. 27, 2023

Who ever heard of angry revolutionists swinging their bare feet together with their oppressor in lily-pad park pools, with gospels and guitars and “I Have A Dream” speeches?

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey