enslave

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

But my mother did not seem to care; she would always scoff at her opponents and call them fools in letting their husbands enslave them completely.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane

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

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

“Man’s own deed becomes an alien power opposed to him, which enslaves him instead of being controlled by him,” as Marx put it.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 3, 2016

If I must obey, it is better and less demoralising to yield an external submission so as to escape penalty or constraint, than to yield to authority from a general confidence which enslaves the mind.

From Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle by Henry Noel Brailsford

“Not Built in a Day” is frank about the limits of our ability to know what life was like for the enslaved.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

The law was originally meant to grant citizenship to American-born, formerly enslaved people following the American Civil War.

From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026

The irony is that Sally was also Martha’s half-sister — the product of John Wayles’ relations with an enslaved woman — making her biological kin to the Monticello Association members, too.

From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2026

Lithwick: Separated from their children, not yet full citizens, formerly enslaved parents faced unimaginable odds to reunite their families.

From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026

Perhaps the most famous enslaved man in America at the time, William Lee was not granted the most basic recognition of his birth or death.

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

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

“You’ll learn, young brotha. You’ll learn. The Europeans succeeded in denigrating and enslaving peoples of African descent, but there’s royal blood flowing through your veins, you hear me?”

From "Dear Martin" by Nic Stone