as in slavery
the state of being an enslaved person
people freed from bondage
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Recent Examples of bondage
Months later, Gershon was hanging from the ceiling, dressed in bondage gear, reflecting upon her early acting goals to perform Chekhov, portray Medea and stun audiences into silence.
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Cat Woods, Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2026
Shibari is Japanese rope bondage.
—Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 14 Feb. 2026
The main performance is scheduled to include aerial acrobatics, bondage, burlesque and drag performers from groups such as The Dragonettes, AKArts Collective and others with hypnotic live looping and vocal music from Morgan Sorne.
—Anne Schrager, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Feb. 2026
By smashing together heavy atoms of lead traveling at near-light speeds using the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), scientists can create a high-energy environment that briefly frees gluons and quarks from this atomic bondage, recreating the quark-gluon plasma of the early universe.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 30 Jan. 2026
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Cat Woods, Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2026
Shibari is Japanese rope bondage.
—Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 14 Feb. 2026
The main performance is scheduled to include aerial acrobatics, bondage, burlesque and drag performers from groups such as The Dragonettes, AKArts Collective and others with hypnotic live looping and vocal music from Morgan Sorne.
—Anne Schrager, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Feb. 2026
By smashing together heavy atoms of lead traveling at near-light speeds using the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), scientists can create a high-energy environment that briefly frees gluons and quarks from this atomic bondage, recreating the quark-gluon plasma of the early universe.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 30 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bondage
slavery
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Books in this category address war, gun violence, natural disasters, domestic violence, human trafficking, slavery and genocide, physical fighting, and more.—
BrieAnna J. Frank,
USA Today,
7 May 2026
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In 1575 Cervantes was on board a ship to Spain (and planning to leave the army) when he was captured by pirates and sold into slavery in Algiers.—
René Ostberg,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
7 May 2026
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“Bondage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bondage. Accessed 15 May. 2026.
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