subjugate

He was just a young man looking at a symbol of power and not caring much about who that power was used to subjugate.

From Slate ● Jul. 10, 2026

Gerwig made Louisa May Alcott’s language her own for 2019’s “Little Women” and I don’t expect her to subjugate her signature voice to C.S.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 1, 2026

In 1876 President Ulysses S. Grant ordered the Army to subjugate the traditionals.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025

As he told the court that Combs had used his fame and power to "subjugate" his victims, the music mogul did not look up, remaining expressionless for the judge's 20-minute speech.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2025

Wayna Qhapaq liked his new quarters so much that he stayed on while Atawallpa and his generals went out to subjugate a few more provinces.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

It recounts the terror of falling in love—how the process subjugates people, leaves them vulnerable.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 1, 2018

I read all the recent controversy surrounding Elisabeth Badinter's book, The Conflict, in which Badinter suggests breastfeeding and attachment parenting subjugates working women.

From New York Times ● Jul. 25, 2012

On the other, it has tended to finesse or sidestep the issue of whether polygamy itself, or polygamy as practiced by the Henricksons, empowers or subjugates women.

From Time ● Mar. 21, 2011

Over in Milton Cross, there's a feudal lord of the manor who makes his wife wash strangers' feet, subjugates everyone in the village into going to church and is unaccountably irresistible to every woman.

From The Guardian ● May 13, 2010

In this hypothetical form, he subjugates his matter.

From Popular scientific lectures by Mach, Ernst

Kaunda's message was clear - black Africans must no longer be subjugated.

From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2026

The pavilions are scattered in seemingly haphazard fashion, in keeping with Mr. Govan’s conviction that visitors should follow their own curiosity and make their own connections without being subjugated to a hierarchy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

She became Montalvo’s Calafia, who was subjugated by Spain.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 2, 2024

In the early 1890s, U.S. political and military leaders tried to outlaw the Ghost Dance, fearing the movement was a precursor to an uprising in communities it subjugated.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 7, 2024

Yet a third theory is that the Zapotec of Monte Alban—not the Olmec of La Venta—consolidated to form North America’s first imperialist power, an aggressive state that subjugated dozens of other villages.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

Aubrecht watches from afar as Yscalin falls to Fýredel, its ruler and populace subjugating themselves to the cruel dragons, desperate to avoid their wrath.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026

In nearly every tale that involves a subjugating force, the individual bucking the system may win the day but lose the war.

From Salon ● Dec. 29, 2025

In Malofeev’s subjugating hands, Janácek’s vaporously evocative “In the Mists” became “In the Thick, Disorienting and Blinding Fog” and led, without a pause, into Liszt’s doomed and drummed “Funérailles,” creating an extraordinary sonic vista.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 29, 2025

His administration has helped keep Russia from subjugating the country, which was part of the Soviet Union before achieving its independence in 1991.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 12, 2023

"My friend is such a great artist that he reverses the natural order of things, subjugating everything to his art."

From Norway by Jungman, Beatrix