subjugation
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Scottish investors had tried to evade economic subjugation to England by setting up an empire of their own.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026
Then-President Harry Truman's response was to commit US to support, in his words, "free peoples resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures".
From BBC ● Jan. 8, 2026
She allowed none of that here, tapping into the desperation of a woman whose self-worth is wrapped up in the subjugation of those around her.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2025
Within months of her 1836 arrival in New York, Ernestine Rose, a Polish-born rabbi’s daughter, began traveling around the United States condemning women’s subjugation, economic inequality, organized religion, and chattel slavery.
From Slate ● Apr. 10, 2025
Lynds’s achievement—the seemingly total subjugation of a large group of violent inmates—is one that would probably dazzle most correction officers and wardens today.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
Vocabulary lists containing subjugation
Words from "The Avengers"
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The Pearl
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"Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death" by Patrick Henry (1775)
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