as in slavery
the state of being an enslaved person
people freed from bondage
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Recent Examples of bondage
This will be a great day to get the hostages away from their bondage and their torture.
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Sarah Fortinsky, The Hill, 12 Oct. 2025
To be a partisan is to live in intellectual bondage.
—John H Bolthouse, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Oct. 2025
The American border agency said its probe identified abuse of vulnerability, abusive working and living conditions, debt bondage, withholding of wages, and excessive overtime.
—Wayne Chang, CNN Money, 25 Sep. 2025
The store supplied her with bondage pants, kilts, and T-shirts printed with obscene illustrations.
—Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
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Sarah Fortinsky, The Hill, 12 Oct. 2025
To be a partisan is to live in intellectual bondage.
—John H Bolthouse, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Oct. 2025
The American border agency said its probe identified abuse of vulnerability, abusive working and living conditions, debt bondage, withholding of wages, and excessive overtime.
—Wayne Chang, CNN Money, 25 Sep. 2025
The store supplied her with bondage pants, kilts, and T-shirts printed with obscene illustrations.
—Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bondage
slavery
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But by the end of the 19th century—after slavery was abolished in 1888 and coffee production became further industrialized—Paraty slid into a period of extended decline.—
David Amsden,
Travel + Leisure,
5 Nov. 2025
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Personal family accounts reveal how, despite slavery, Jim Crow and other roadblocks, the Malloy clan became one of Laurinburg’s richest and most powerful.—
Essence,
Essence,
4 Nov. 2025
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“Bondage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bondage. Accessed 26 Nov. 2025.
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