subordinate
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Another cop, whose name was not released by the department, was suspended for 10 days after both failing to disclose a relationship with a subordinate and using a department database for nonwork purposes.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 27, 2026
Instead, the history of sacrifice is one of heteronomy—that is, being subordinate to “forces that we do not control.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 25, 2026
But Ricardo Monreal, parliamentary leader for the ruling Morena party, rejected the idea that Washington could make Mexico a "subordinate".
From Barron's • Jan. 23, 2026
Trump visited the construction site, theatrically inspecting it like a mob boss checking on a wayward subordinate.
From Salon • Jan. 12, 2026
At a respectably subordinate distance behind Joseph came the women of Galilee, mixed in with a motley, perhaps gate-crashing crowd of mourners, spectators, children, and no less than three frisky, impious mongrels.
From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger
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