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subservience

[suhb-sur-vee-uhns] / səbˈsɜr vi əns /




NOUN
subordination
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It helped undo the damage done by the subservience in “I Dream of Jeannie.”

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 2, 2025

He is emotionally weakened to the point of subservience — to tech, to conspiracy, and humor; anything that will restore some meaning.

From Salon Apr. 19, 2025

More and more women have been given a choice about how many children they will bear and that has opened up avenues to different lives, less confined to motherhood and economic subservience to men.

From Seattle Times Jun. 5, 2024

It turns out that most people don’t want to be forced to be free, especially when that freedom means subservience to one’s supposed liberator.

From Slate Jan. 16, 2024

Women exchanged the maids’ uniforms of subservience for the white chadors of emancipation.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides




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