Thesaurus results for ABUSER

abuser

noun

Definition of abuser

as in oppressor

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Recent Examples of abuser The claim featured in the ad was rated misleading, as a series of court records undercut the claim that Hamilton attempted to protect the child abuser. — Kansas City Star, 3 Nov. 2026 As part of his closing statement the lawyer also rounded on the 2023 Channel 4 documentary that alleged Brand was a serial abuser as part of a joint investigation with The Sunday Times of London. — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 2 Nov. 2026 This form includes questions about the filer’s abuser, their immigration process and their nationality. — Sasha Allen, Hartford Courant, 1 Nov. 2026 My abuser understood the power of words, and used them to dictate the terms of my obedience. — Debbie Millman, Time, 22 Oct. 2026 Sometimes victims are mistaken as the abuser and taken into custody. — Melissa Sanchez, ProPublica, 14 Oct. 2026 But conservatives could only focus on race, Hancock said, because the idea of a Black welfare abuser has worked for them for decades. — Laura Turbay, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2026 The media has overwhelming taken Wilson's side, even after the man was proven innocent, and players like Chicago Sky's Natasha Cloud claimed the fan may be a domestic abuser. — Jon Root Outkick, FOXNews.com, 2 Oct. 2026 Every token an abuser consumes creates an immediate operating cost the company will never recoup. — Sarita Singh, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2026

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Noun

There’s more than a mirror between the oppressor and oppressed.

— Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 30 Oct. 2026
These included quotes by Fanon, a philosopher who wrote extensively about the ways in which colonized people adopt the mindsets of their oppressors.

— Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of oppressor

Noun

Red is immediately abducted, cut open in an ambulance, and injected with pain-magnifying drugs by his torturers, while Liz accidentally murders the mysterious man surveilling her next door.

— EW Staff, Entertainment Weekly, 25 June 2026
Aaron escapes his torturers, first by rooting himself in the town’s only movie theater open to Black people, and then by lying about his age and enlisting in the Navy at 16.

— Meredith Maran, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2026

Definition of torturer

Noun

Parton’s ability to become the harasser without falling into some version of male drag makes this short sequence far superior to the many films with a similar premise that followed.

— Culture Critic, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2026
White stars can help by publicly supporting their Black colleagues, who are especially targeted by online trolls and harassers.

— Ian O'Connor, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of harasser

Noun

Are prisoners in Nazi concentration camps not the legal owners of artworks they were forced to make by their SS persecutors?

— Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 18 Sep. 2026
Honoring the undocumented and decrying their persecutors at the height of her career, against political headwinds and with nothing to gain and everything to lose, was par for her life, and a challenge for all of us to do the same.

— Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of persecutor

Noun

Not among our political enemies, not among our historical heroes, not among our martyrs, not among the incels, and not among the collaborators.

— Paul Bloom, New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2026
So far, neither the city nor the conservancy seems willing to see speed itself as the enemy, but maybe another fatal crash or two will convince them.

— Justin Davidson, Curbed, 5 Nov. 2026

Definition of enemy

Noun

The entrepreneur and scion of a California real estate family became the antagonist in Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s documentary.

— Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2026
Palad-in for a bad time Every show needs an antagonist, and the voices in Vision's head can't do all the work.

— Jeff Spry, Space.com, 2 Nov. 2026

Definition of antagonist

Noun

Enforcement should address speech codes, discriminatory security fees, selective recognition of student groups, and administrative acquiescence in the heckler’s veto.

— Ilya Shapiro, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2026
The president was most of the way through his speech late Monday to a crowd of MAGA loyalists when the heckler briefly forced him to pause.

— Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 27 Oct. 2026

Definition of heckler

Noun

Even Jamal Murray, who prides himself on not being a foul-baiter, couldn’t resist leaning into Darryn Peterson after the rookie left his feet on a shot fake.

— Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 7 Oct. 2026
Like dropping Emmett Till's name in an article about the WNBA All-Star game, that's got to be an all-time rage baiter.

— Ryan Canfield OutKick, FOXNews.com, 25 July 2026

Definition of baiter

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