abusers

plural of abuser

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Noun
  • Natalie Portman stars as Evey, a young working-class woman rescued from the secret police by a masked freedom fighter known only as V (Hugo Weaving), who is leading a plot to take down the oppressors in dramatic fashion.
    Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 5 Nov. 2025
  • There were only the oppressors and the oppressed.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The overwhelming majority of experts dispute that torture actually works as an interrogation technique, arguing that any information that comes out of it is unreliable as people under duress will say anything needed to convince their torturers to stop.
    Ellen Mitchell, The Hill, 5 Nov. 2025
  • For decades, generals, coup-plotters, and torturers walked free under the shield of amnesty laws passed after the country’s 21-year dictatorship.
    Julia Vargas Jones, CNN Money, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Amish are part of the wider Anabaptist movement, which puts heavy emphasis on Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount, containing some of his most radical and counter-cultural sayings — to love enemies, live simply, bless persecutors, turn the other cheek and to endure sufferings joyfully.
    Dave Smith, Fortune, 30 Oct. 2025
  • That is a nasty process which involves digging up Ambar’s still-fresh corpse, then subjecting it to various grisly indignities night after night as retribution gets visited upon our heroine’s persecutors.
    Dennis Harvey, Variety, 6 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • That stark reality forced both sides to wage slash-and-burn propaganda campaigns designed to sow doubt and disinformation among their enemies.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 7 Nov. 2025
  • But he’s considered a centrist Democrat and has attracted political enemies from both the Right and Progressives, the former due to his pro-LBGT policies and the latter due to his support of centrist leaders such as District Attorney Brooke Jenkins.
    Rachel Schilke, The Washington Examiner, 7 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Judging by the public reaction, this was only the endgame for the royal race-baiters.
    Jack Royston, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Bostwick's character is famously called an a**hole by the film's hecklers.
    Audrey Gibbs, Nashville Tennessean, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Footage widely circulated showed the two hecklers escorted away by security.
    Ellie Cook, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • From Jason Voorhees terrorizing all visitors of Camp Crystal Lake to Michael Myers persistently haunting the inhabitants of Haddonfield, Illinois, horror movies have relied on the silence and mystique of their main antagonists for decades.
    Stephanie Sengwe, PEOPLE, 30 Oct. 2025
  • The two sides are long-term antagonists.
    Andy Browne, semafor.com, 30 Oct. 2025
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