as in sadness
a state or spell of low spirits
suffered a lingering oppression in the weeks after his dog died
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Recent Examples of oppression
Additionally, a 2022 study published in Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders found that masking is tied to the social oppression of autistic people.
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Mark Travers, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
Enslaved people fought daily against this system of oppression.
—Ana Lucia Araujo / Made By History, TIME, 4 Nov. 2024
This is the Chinese Communist Party's playbook for political oppression.
—Nina Turner, Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2024
Instead, his hallucinatory drama explores themes like Black assimilation, imperial white oppression, eroticism, and the uneasy relationship between religion and power.
—Jordan Crucchiola, Vulture, 29 Oct. 2024
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Mark Travers, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
Enslaved people fought daily against this system of oppression.
—Ana Lucia Araujo / Made By History, TIME, 4 Nov. 2024
This is the Chinese Communist Party's playbook for political oppression.
—Nina Turner, Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2024
Instead, his hallucinatory drama explores themes like Black assimilation, imperial white oppression, eroticism, and the uneasy relationship between religion and power.
—Jordan Crucchiola, Vulture, 29 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for oppression
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The Fed’s duties expanded after the Great Depression, another crisis that was triggered by a stock market crash and made worse by an agricultural depression brought on by unsustainable farming practices, droughts and the Dust Bowl.Reco McCambry, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
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Postpartum depression symptoms can include persistent feelings of sadness, lack of interest in activities, eating and sleep disturbances and excessive irritability or crying.Dr. Esther Zusstone, ABC News, 20 Nov. 2024
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Best of Friends - The Fox and the Hound (1981) Pearl Bailey’s warm vocals paint a portrait of a friendship against all odds, tinged with an undercurrent of melancholy that foreshadows the pair's eventual falling out.Barry Levitt, TIME, 27 Nov. 2024
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After the phone call from the doctor, Annie, who was already experiencing bouts of melancholy after Zoë’s birth, sank into a depression.Julia Whelan Krish Seenivasan Lance Neal, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2024
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There will always be a stream of sorrow flowing under my feet.Christine Pride, SELF, 21 Nov. 2024
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So why the slight tinge of sorrow in her announcement?David Fear, Rolling Stone, 19 Nov. 2024
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This is just one of the many outer depictions of her inner anguish.Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 3 Nov. 2024
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The judge read on as Reuss described his anguish at being denied his vocation.Tomas Weber, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Oct. 2024
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“Oppression.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oppression. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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