oppresses

present tense third-person singular of oppress

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of oppresses His policies have been instrumental in dismantling the criminal enterprise that oppresses the Venezuelan people. Amir Daftari, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for oppresses
Verb
  • Their style of pitching — relentlessly pound the strike zone — works well in a ballpark where the thick air depresses doubles and triples.
    Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • As Aerohart explains of its own device, the user simply puts the tinder – char cloth seems to be the most recommended – inside the cavity at the tip of the removable piston rod, reinstalls the piston back into the cylinder, then firmly and rapidly depresses it.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 6 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Over such spans, change overwhelms continuity; too much simply disappears.
    Manvir Singh, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
  • This figure motivates Butrich but also overwhelms her.
    Sabrina Weiss, The Dial, 23 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The mistake tortures them, which prompts the couple to try and solve the mystery by producing a fake play in an attempt to get their ex-neighbor Mary (Chloe Cherry) to audition.
    Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Americans are used to thinking about automation as something that devastates factory towns in the heartland.
    Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2025
  • The novel is about three teenagers experiencing the joy and angst of their senior year in a New York City high school as the AIDS crisis devastates their community.
    Abdi Nazemian, PEOPLE, 22 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The depth of humanity Kosztolányi brings to the sorrowful life of Skylark and her adoring parents is magical, and rewards anyone who overcomes its modest premise.
    New York Times, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • However, the new fuel cell overcomes this challenge with its lightweight design.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 18 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Rather, what troubles him are the claims that the song’s success has been manufactured.
    Melinda Newman, Billboard, 1 Oct. 2025
  • But the financial angle troubles her further.
    Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • And that burdens a lot of our recipients.
    Ashley Lopez, NPR, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Critics of the way the administration is handling immigration enforcement have raised concerns that holding people without criminal convictions or charges unnecessarily burdens the system and pulls undocumented immigrants away from their families.
    Dan Gooding, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025

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“Oppresses.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oppresses. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.

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