thralldom
Example Sentences
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Critics and Cassandras of our thralldom to secondhand experience via the Internet are hardly scarce — Jaron Lanier, Evgeny Morozov, and Clifford Stoll are only among the most cogent.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 16, 2022
This backdrop contains vivid scenes -- among them, the subjugation of an immense subcontinent and ancient cultures by an upstart island, and the upheavals that result when this thralldom is abruptly ended.
From Time Magazine Archive
I can readily understand how anyone under the influence of kingo could be dragged into a gruesome form of thralldom.
From Time Magazine Archive
But King Mahendra refuses to swap isolation for the thralldom of any great power, steadfastly pursues a policy of nonalignment.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had said: "It was a supreme judgment passed at the bar of history by the lofty conscience of a free people to rescue her mother from the humiliation of thralldom and to save civilization."
From Under Four Administrations From Cleveland to Taft by Straus, Oscar S.
