verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
woman
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Obviously Delia Cope is a white middle class racist woman who really doesn't care how she oppresses us as Black women.
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He voted to increase fares on the wildly inefficient SunTran bus system, thus further oppressing working men and women .
■ VERB
feel
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I have had to minister to several who have felt oppressed by their connection with freemasonry.
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Now she could not recapture the understanding; she felt oppressed .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"My people were oppressed by your people for three hundred years," Cavita commented.
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Marxists have studied the role of the family in oppressing women.
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Since colonial times, black people in South Africa have been oppressed by the white minority.
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The loneliness of her little apartment oppressed her.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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In fact culture can be used as another guise under which one group can hide to oppress the other.
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Machines serve us: technology serves us; our habits oppress us, and enslave us.
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The weight of inexpressible or pointless words oppressed him.
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They oppress , depress and divide the forces of possible resistance, and turn ordinary people against them.
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They no longer supply pretexts for local bullies to oppress , nor reason for western governments to turn a blind eye.