submissive
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Its subtitle, about awakening and survival, underlines Mrie’s trajectory from submissive daughter to political actor and skilled observer.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2026
Judges in places like Massachusetts were customarily paid by appropriation of the colonial legislature, which could withhold or delay payment to judges thought too submissive to British interests.
From Slate • Feb. 26, 2025
The eye-popping sum had sparked criticism and raised concerns that the board of Tesla was too submissive and close to Mr Musk.
From BBC • Jun. 14, 2024
To test this theory, experts have coded facial behaviour of macaques in more than 3,000 social interactions across the contexts of aggressive, submissive, and affiliative.
From Science Daily • Oct. 5, 2023
Then Wang Lung was humbled and anxious and he was submissive and he was sorry and he said, “Let it be only as you wish and forever.”
From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck
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