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enslave

[en-slayv] / ɛnˈsleɪv /


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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

“Proper is a word forged by men who would seek to enslave us with it,” Lucretia counsels Ilithyia.

From Salon ● Dec. 20, 2025

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

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

It was the imperial dream of a feudal age that made men enslave others.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright

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

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

Were we talking about a Terminator scenario, were a Skynettian matrix of superintelligent machines gains consciousness and either destroys or enslaves humanity in order to further its particular goals?

From Slate ● Feb. 28, 2017

Take no trouble On that head; because the service Of the arts enslaves nobody.

From The Trumpeter of Säkkingen A Song from the Upper Rhine. by Joseph Victor von Scheffel

A group of the enslaved Athenians devise a plan to stage “Medea” and “The Trojan Women,” a pair of tragedies by Euripides that deal with vengeance and the costs of war.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

The exhibit explained that, prior to becoming an abolitionist, he had enslaved people in his household.

From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2026

Finding Britain's Slave Traders with David Olusoga is a new two-part series that explores the individuals, institutions and organisations who financed Britain's trade of enslaved Africans.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

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

But most students heard little about the hundreds of people forced to labor in Washington’s house and fields, or the enslaved men who fought America’s wars and built the White House.

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

The financing contributed to England's role in enslaving around three million African men, women and children, of whom an estimated half a million died during forced transportation, King's College London said.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

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

“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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