enslave
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He’s an amoral tycoon who would enslave an entire country to make a buck.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2026
Superfly is constructing a device to turn all animals into mutants and enslave the human race, and the heroes enter into a color explosion epic battle to stop him.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 22, 2023
Moreover, it can be argued that every institution devised by humans has been used to enslave other humans.
From Salon ● May 11, 2023
But last week Hinton quit Google so he could speak freely about his fears that A.I. systems would soon become smarter than us and gain the power to enslave or kill us.
From Slate ● May 9, 2023
We expect great things from men who have made such a noble stand against the designs of their fellow-men to enslave them.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
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Later, it did duty as a lower level of Nibelheim, where Alberich enslaves his fellow Nibelungs as the first step in his quest for world domination.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 14, 2023
Then he pauses and sinks in his chair and answers himself, "It is a handcuff that enslaves poor workers."
From Salon ● May 12, 2022
Speaking to supporters at the end of his Socialist Party's three-day congress in Valencia, Mr Sanchez said that the practice "enslaves" women.
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2021
From these images, Jemisin spun out a four-hundred-page story about an empire that enslaves its deities.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 20, 2020
Love and ambition prompt him to provide abundantly for his children; he enslaves himself to give them those social advantages which he missed in youth.
From Religious Education in the Family by Cope, Henry Frederick
Black people who were enslaved were undoubtedly domiciled here, but the same is not true of temporary visitors.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2026
A significant contribution to early American economic output came from enslaved people.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 4, 2026
Nor are the formerly enslaved Americans who forced the nation to confront the grotesque contradiction between slavery and constitutional liberty.
From Slate ● Jul. 2, 2026
Father Hidalgo, the priest who raised the cry of independence in 1810, demanded that slave owners free the enslaved at once, “grant them the necessary freedom documents,” or risk the death penalty.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026
The reality of keeping Black men, women, and children enslaved was unjust, a violation of human rights, and contrary to “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness,” the founding ideals of the United States.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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But it was extremely hypocritical of the U.S. to condemn the Barbary states for enslaving a few hundred Americans given, you know, the extensive enslavement of hundreds of thousands of Africans on American soil.
From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2026
France abolished enslaving humans more than 170 years ago, and in 2001 recognised slavery and the slave trade as "crimes against humanity".
From Barron's ● May 28, 2026
One of them, an intricately carved throne, expresses the Kingdom of Dahomey’s expansionist practice of enslaving captured enemies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2024
And, in its most extreme version, this argument morphs into explicit anxieties about AIs enslaving or destroying the human race.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 12, 2023
“But with binding magic, you’re basically enslaving a spirit. Like the corpuscules? Someone with binding magic captured a spirit and then shadowshaped it into Ol’ Vernon’s corpse and sent it to do their bidding.
From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older
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