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They were poor and downtrodden.
a war that was supposed to liberate the downtrodden citizens of that nation
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Southern Miss’ Charles Huff has had a strong debut season at what was a downtrodden program, going 7-5 at a place that had won a total of four games over the previous two years.
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Sean Conlon,pia Singh, CNBC, 3 Dec. 2025
Tapping the engineer behind Johnny Cash renditions of Soundgarden and Glenn Danzig tunes casts Childers’s stories of downtrodden Americans in a new light.
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2025
Southern Miss’ Charles Huff has had a strong debut season at what was a downtrodden program, going 7-5 at a place that had won a total of four games over the previous two years.
—Bruce Feldman, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2025
The exuberant Daniels was much more downtrodden, and there seemed to be many thoughts running through his mind.
—Shreyas Laddha, Kansas City Star, 28 Nov. 2025
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“Downtrodden.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/downtrodden. Accessed 15 Dec. 2025.
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downtrodden
adjective
down·trod·den
ˈdau̇n-ˈträd-ᵊn 
: crushed by superior power
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