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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

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

“But it will enslave you more and more,” said Slop.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff

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

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

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

Moreover, every repetition further breaks down the present resistance and, therefore, in a sense further enslaves the individual to that mode of action.

From Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education by Ontario. Ministry of Education

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

Slavery in New York expanded under British rule but declined during the first decades of the 19th century, with most enslaved people liberated before 1830.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026

In 1863, President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing enslaved people in the states that had rebelled.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson

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

“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


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