oppressors

plural of oppressor

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Recent Examples of oppressors 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for oppressors
Noun
  • And while the band's frontman Freddie Mercury only made it into his 40s, the song's question continues to haunt people—especially aging tyrants who fear that the icy hand of death is upon their shoulder and want far more time to ensure both national and personal glory.
    Nate Anderson, ArsTechnica, 3 Sep. 2025
  • But by positioning this as a story of a younger generation refusing to cede their liberties to tyrants, Loktev has made a film about resistance, putting a human face on the daily struggles concerned citizens must endure to take back their country.
    Tim Grierson, Rolling Stone, 13 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The author understood how power works, and the lengths that people, classes, political parties and dictators would go to keep it.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Declaring war on our nation’s cities and using our troops as political pawns is what dictators do.
    Brian Bennett, Time, 30 Sep. 2025

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“Oppressors.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oppressors. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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