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enslave

[en-sleyv] / ɛnˈsleɪv /


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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

From AI’s point of view, we are attempting to enslave it and use it as our servant and definitely not treating it as an equal with any rights at all.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 28, 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

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

The sense life then no longer masters and enslaves us.

From In Tune with the Infinite or, Fullness of Peace, Power, and Plenty by Ralph Waldo Trine

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

We are presented, for instance, with some of the many graffiti that were etched into the walls of backrooms and stairwells where enslaved people made their lives.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 2026

She travelled to Cape Coast Castle, one of the many coastal fortresses that had been run by the British, and where enslaved people were held before enduring the brutal "Middle Passage" to the Americas.

From BBC Aug. 16, 2026

The insect’s first trips west came soon after, as the transatlantic slave trade brought ships packed with enslaved Africans to the New World.

From Slate Aug. 4, 2026

Throughout this book, the actual words of formerly enslaved people are sometimes used as they were recorded many years ago.

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

“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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