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abusers

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plural of abuser

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Can an accurate story of a system of oppression be derived from sources created and preserved by the oppressors?

— Drew Gilpin Faust, The New York Review of Books, 19 Sep. 2026
For the left that supports the Palestinian cause, Muslims are the oppressed and the West – including Israel – are the oppressors… Whether Muslims hold conservative-religious views in this context is irrelevant.

— Tyler Speicher, FOXNews.com, 15 Sep. 2026

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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

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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

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That’s a little simplistic — look at San Francisco’s Scott Wiener being chased from a trans rights event by hecklers accusing him of being pro-genocide.

— David Weigel, semafor.com, 1 July 2026
McIlroy was even seen stepping back from the ball to quip back at one of the hecklers, while others, including his friend Shane Lowry, were also quick to respond.

— Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 23 June 2026

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Companion legislation would require school districts, public libraries, and other educational institutions statewide to stock opioid antagonists onsite.

— Nathalia Fernandez, New York Daily News, 31 Aug. 2026
Species once seen primarily as competitors or antagonists have turned out to be mutualists, with both parties benefiting.

— Denise Hruby, Miami Herald, 21 Aug. 2026

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