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Recent Examples of Synonyms for abusers
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The film focuses on their heated debate, as some wish to fight their oppressors while others argue for a calculated escape.—
Kevin Jacobsen,
Entertainment Weekly,
28 Dec. 2025 -
This clause had been included to mitigate white citizens’ fears that if armed, Blacks would turn the weapons on their oppressors.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
13 Nov. 2025
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Hopper grabs El and leaves Kali behind to be captured by her torturers again.—
Kelly Lawler,
USA Today,
31 Dec. 2025
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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
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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
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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
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Moreover, when harassers disproportionately target women, people of color and LGBTQ officials, entire communities are systematically excluded from participation in self-governance.—
Ernestine Nettles,
Mercury News,
22 Nov. 2025
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Davie’s successor will inherit an organization wrestling with its place in a media ecosystem dominated by overseas tech giants, as well as battling enemies closer to home, with conservative politicians and media proprietors wishing to see the BBC diminished during charter renewal.—
Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
9 Jan. 2026
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Even paranoiacs have enemies, maybe rendering their paranoia a rational response.—
Chris Jones,
Chicago Tribune,
9 Jan. 2026
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Rage baiters, in short, reflect the dark side of the attention economy.—
Roger J. Kreuz,
Fortune,
5 Dec. 2025
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Judging by the public reaction, this was only the endgame for the royal race-baiters.—
Jack Royston,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 Oct. 2025
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Nanjiani, 44, became famous for stand-up comedy based on his real-life experiences, including growing up in Pakistan, moving to Iowa for college at 18, and dealing with racist hecklers as a Muslim post-9/11.—
Kylie Gilbert,
InStyle,
6 Jan. 2026
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That tone set the stage for the hecklers.—
Miles Klee,
Rolling Stone,
21 Dec. 2025
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To build both a better Iran and a safer world, Tehran and its antagonists will need to find a way out of this spiral.—
Mohammad Javad Zarif,
Foreign Affairs,
22 Dec. 2025
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Edie Falco as General Francis Ardmore Joining the cast in The Way of Water, Edie Falco will reprise her role as General Francis Ardmore, one of the antagonists who continues fighting the Na’vi on Pandora, hoping to create a permanent home for humans on the planet.—
Keith Langston,
PEOPLE,
19 Dec. 2025
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