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slave

noun as in one who is the property of another

verb as in work very hard

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Tim Dillon was scheduled to perform, but was later dropped by the Riyadh festival, he said, because of jokes he made about Saudi Arabia’s alleged use of slave labor.

The National Gallery of Art also owns a print of an 1863 photo, “The Scourged Back,” which shows the heavily scarred back of an escaped slave.

She refrains from using the term “slaves,” instead referring to them as “these people” or “workers.”

From Salon

Mahmood said: "Migrants suddenly deciding that they are a modern slave on the eve of their removal, having never made such a claim before, make a mockery of our laws and this country's generosity."

From BBC

The wage slaves of L.A. are going home to God’s country.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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