enslave

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

Most ants can be highly territorial and even go to war or enslave other ants.

From Salon ● Jul. 24, 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

By 1942, however, we knew that the Germans were working feverishly to find a way to add atomic energy to all the other engines of war with which they hoped to enslave the world.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut

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

And he argues, of course, this point with regard to the African-American neighbors he enslaves, but he also applies that to the North.

From Slate ● Oct. 26, 2020

They seem to be under some spiritual need to keep going; their conscience enslaves them.

From Change in the Village by George Sturt

In 1851, an escaped enslaved man named William Parker stood at the door of a Lancaster County farmhouse and barred access to four fugitive enslaved men he was protecting.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

Two enslaved women, Amica and Detfri, pressed their feet into the pliant clay and wrote their names.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

Dame Sarah Mullally was speaking on a visit to Cape Coast Castle in Ghana where enslaved Africans were held before being trafficked to the Americas.

From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026

“Thomas Jefferson was a man of the world. I’m sure he knew gay people. Sally Hemings was enslaved, so I would think she’d be more empathetic because of being an outcast and an outsider.”

From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2026

But in the slaveholding world, enslaved people worked from “can see to can’t see.”

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis

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

Growing up watching those movies and reading comics and science fiction, the idea of robot overlords enslaving humanity was always close at hand.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 26, 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