How to Use the oppressed in a Sentence
the oppressed
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P!nk has long stood up for the bullied and the oppressed.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 12 June 2023
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Music is supposed to be the voice of the oppressed—the actual oppressed.
—Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 16 Sep. 2023
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Music is supposed to be the voice of the oppressed — the actual oppressed.
—Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 15 Sep. 2023
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What matters to us is supporting the oppressed in Gaza.
—Ruth Marks Eglash, Fox News, 12 Mar. 2023
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Our faith, in its wisdom, enjoins us to be the enemy of the oppressor and an aid to the oppressed.
—Ruth Marks Eglash, Fox News, 12 Mar. 2023
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Sometimes even a dialogue emerged on the walls between the oppressed and the oppressor.
—Pouya Afshar, The Conversation, 30 Aug. 2023
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In recent months, Mahomes has taken on a mantle of the oppressed victim.
—Andrea Marks, Rolling Stone, 3 May 2023
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For the oppressed, violence can feel like the only way out of a life that is otherwise encased by walls, like the only means of survival.
—Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 28 Mar. 2024
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Du Bois positions the child as a messiah figure who will someday rescue the oppressed darker races of the world.
—Zachariah Mampilly, Foreign Affairs, 6 Sep. 2022
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With Ukrainian Jews again on collective minds this year, freedom for the oppressed makes Passover even more meaningful.
—Ethel G. Hofman, Sun Sentinel, 23 Mar. 2023
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Harbaugh’s suspension gives UM an excuse to cosplay as the oppressed.
—Jimmy Watkins, cleveland, 6 Sep. 2023
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The organization pledges to help widows and refugees, young men and women, disaster victims and the oppressed from Milwaukee to Greece to Nigeria.
—Jr Radcliffe, Journal Sentinel, 7 June 2023
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Social and political movements in the Muslim world have long been fueled and inspired by the narrative of Ashura, of the oppressed rising up against an oppressor.
—Farnaz Fassihi, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Aug. 2023
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With half a million followers on the popular social media platform and 8.3 million likes, Lev says his message, of fighting hate and standing up for the oppressed, is a universal one.
—Deborah Danan, Sun Sentinel, 20 Apr. 2023
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Sen regularly takes up against issues that bother her and is an outspoken voice for the oppressed in India against political regimes, no matter what their hue.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 24 Jan. 2024
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Many rebellions against China’s official rulers came from millenarian groups and religious cults that sprang up among the oppressed.
—Ian Buruma, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2023
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The defendants deny the accusations, presenting themselves as crusaders using their 1st Amendment rights to stand up for the oppressed.
—Priscella Vega, Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2024
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Her songs often came from a place of interior anguish, but whenever her words rose in volume or pitch, her voice quite literally seemed to be standing up for the vulnerable and the oppressed.
—Chris Richards, Washington Post, 27 July 2023
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In this intersectional worldview, the fight against Israel — and often its very existence — becomes part of a global battle of the oppressed for justice and equality.
—Roger Cohen, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2023
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Tragically, many no longer see ourselves as in solidarity with the oppressed.
—Jay Michaelson, Rolling Stone, 28 June 2023
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But for many members of the young left, the massacre of Israeli innocents represents a glitch in a moral dogma that reduces most political conflict to an underlying battle between the oppressor and the oppressed.
—TIME, 14 Oct. 2023
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More than previous pontiffs, though, the first Latin American pope has also championed human rights, seeing the downtrodden, the underdogs and the oppressed as his primary cause.
—Louisa Loveluck, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2023
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More importantly, Girard provides a structure in which conservatives—not a group usually known for their sympathy for the oppressed—can construe themselves as victims.
—Sam Kriss, Harper's Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
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More importantly, Girard provides a structure in which conservatives—not a group usually known for their sympathy for the oppressed—can construe themselves as victims.
—Michelle Orange, Harper's Magazine, 3 Nov. 2023
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Her recurring theme is the unending cycle of violence among exploitative landlords, the oppressed tribal people, and the military, whose frontline soldiers are also young Adivasis.
—Alpa Shah, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2019
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