suffered a lingering oppression in the weeks after his dog died
Recent Examples on the WebOccupation causes oppression towards women, towards children, towards the environment, etc. Nadeem Muaddi, CNN, 10 Sep. 2022 Computer scientists at Michigan State University contributed to facial recognition technology used for ethnic oppression in Xinjiang. Yangyang Cheng, Wired, 24 Feb. 2022 Sirhan acted alone, having apparently become obsessively fixated by a delusion that Kennedy himself was chiefly responsible for Palestinian oppression. Natalie Shure, The New Republic, 23 Jan. 2022 The measure is aimed at punishing China for the alleged oppression of the Uyghur Muslims. Daniel Flatley, Bloomberg.com, 14 Dec. 2021 Reckoning with one’s position in interwoven systems of oppression is a daunting and deeply unsettling task.WIRED, 26 Aug. 2022 It’s the former president who issues statements on social media and through email blasts that are mostly exclamation points periodically interrupted with all-caps bleats of oppression. Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2022 For her, the bill represents another form of oppression for women of color. Arika Herron, The Indianapolis Star, 28 July 2022 Instead, this is a call for a panoramic view into the structural underpinnings of the use of religion as a tool of oppression. Clay Cane, CNN, 21 July 2022 See More
Word History
Etymology
Middle English oppressioun, borrowed from Anglo-French oppression, borrowed from Latin oppressiōn-, oppressiō "action of pressing on or overpowering," from oppres- or *oppret-, variant stem of opprimere "to press on, stifle, overpower" + -tiōn-, -tiō, suffix of verbal action — more at oppress