as in slavery
the state of being an enslaved person
people freed from bondage
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Recent Examples of bondage
For those freed from bondage, the end of the Civil War was a time of great hope and promise as well as profound disappointment and loss.
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Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Mar. 2025
This economic bondage, called sharecropping, was a system by which tenant farmers rented land from large landowners.
—David Cason, The Conversation, 7 Mar. 2025
Leigh Bowery, the fashion icon and transgressive performance artist, designed several costumes (assless slacks; sparkly bondage suits) for Atlas’s video pieces and often appeared on-screen as a kind of spiritual hype man.
—Beatrice Loayza, ARTnews.com, 6 Feb. 2025
Passing for White to Escape Slavery Passing for white was an intentional strategy that enslaved people used to free themselves from bondage.
—JSTOR Daily, 20 Feb. 2025
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Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Mar. 2025
This economic bondage, called sharecropping, was a system by which tenant farmers rented land from large landowners.
—David Cason, The Conversation, 7 Mar. 2025
Leigh Bowery, the fashion icon and transgressive performance artist, designed several costumes (assless slacks; sparkly bondage suits) for Atlas’s video pieces and often appeared on-screen as a kind of spiritual hype man.
—Beatrice Loayza, ARTnews.com, 6 Feb. 2025
Passing for White to Escape Slavery Passing for white was an intentional strategy that enslaved people used to free themselves from bondage.
—JSTOR Daily, 20 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bondage
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States gained additional representation in Congress and in the Electoral College, thereby entrenching slavery in the national political framework.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 Apr. 2025
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By Scott Spillman The book is less about slavery than about how Americans have thought, written, and wrestled with it for more than 200 years.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
22 Apr. 2025
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“Bondage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bondage. Accessed 7 May. 2025.
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