oppressor

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Recent Examples of oppressor Despite Republican efforts to identify their party with Israel and to tag Democrats as providing aid and comfort to its enemies, younger evangelical Christians are breaking with their parents on the issue, seeing Israel as an oppressor rather than as a victim. David M. Halbfinger, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025 There were only the oppressors and the oppressed. David Fear, Rolling Stone, 2 Oct. 2025 Bad actors are counting on us to tear each other apart—to fall for the narcissism of small differences, to turn on our allies instead of our oppressors. Andrew Weinstein, Time, 12 Sep. 2025 Movie lovers tend to think of producers as dictators of formulas, oppressors of originality, the enemies of art, but that just reflects the unfortunate history of studio filmmaking in Hollywood and elsewhere. Richard Brody, New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2025 The poem presents the Trojans, and the future Romans of Virgil’s own time, as both the underdogs and the oppressors, both the migrants and the colonizers, both the wretched refugees and the imperial overlords. Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025 And Dafoe, an actor who’s always excelled at playing off-kilter figures, keeps us guessing about the soft-spoken but steely Anniston, who seems intent on paying for not only his sins but those of oppressors in general. Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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Noun
  • As historian Timothy Snyder warns, tyrants will always take advantage of a national crisis to consolidate their power and remove their opponents’ civil liberties.
    Rev. Nathan Empsall, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
  • So how should CHROs and other talent leaders handle reports of an office tyrant?
    Susan Caminiti, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • And with foreign powers long divided over the war in Syria and the uprising against its former dictator, there is little hope for an international tribunal either.
    Danny Makki, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The 2025 Noble Peace Prize went to Maria Corina Machado for her political opposition to Venezuelan socialist dictator Nicolas Maduro.
    Peter Lucas, Boston Herald, 16 Oct. 2025

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“Oppressor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oppressor. Accessed 25 Oct. 2025.

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