subjugation
Example Sentences
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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
Koreans began immigrating to Los Angeles in the early 1900s as Korea lost independence to Japan, with a formal subjugation in 1910.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 12, 2025
The 14th and 15th Amendments were ratified to establish an enduring multiracial democracy, explicitly empowering Congress to end the subjugation of nonwhite Americans.
From Slate • Oct. 15, 2025
Eventually, philosophers arrived at the superiority theory of humor, according to which every joke is, at its core, a hostile attack designed to affirm the comic’s dominance and assure the subjugation of its target.
From Salon • Nov. 18, 2024
But the price is subjugation to a way of life completely alien to their urges and desires.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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