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Recent Examples of chattel Khartoum was founded as a slave market, in 1821, and Arabs continued to raid southern areas, including the Nuba Mountains, for human chattel long after the practice was outlawed, in 1924. Nicolas Niarchos, New Yorker, 19 May 2025 Enslavers often viewed them as mere chattel and not worth the expense and effort of commissioning a painting. Kate McMahon, The Conversation, 3 Feb. 2025 The game is the system that keeps one as chattel for the other. Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 26 Dec. 2024 Bottles are taxed under the more generous capital gains tax regime for chattels, while casks are widely considered a wasting asset and are currently entirely free from capital gains tax. Mark Littler, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024 See All Example Sentences for chattel
Recent Examples of Synonyms for chattel
Noun
  • Items from the Dorothy Porter Wesley rare book collection of slave narratives and abolitionist tracks will also be included.
    Raisa Habersham, Miami Herald, 3 Sep. 2025
  • And there's actually what's known as slave castles, in Africa.
    Outside Online, Outside Online, 27 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Still, the offense wasn’t flowing, and the unit had just given an extra possession to the Jaguars with an interception that led to a touchdown.
    Mike Kaye September 10, Charlotte Observer, 10 Sep. 2025
  • During more than two hours of testimony, journalist Michael Shellenberger testified that sources had informed him that intelligence communities are in possession of numerous high-resolution photos and videos of the craft unlike any of the grainy imagery that has so far been declassified.
    Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • If things do go long, Alcaraz will still back himself.
    Charlie Eccleshare, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2025
  • But now, the King and the royal family have received very sad news that will change things going forward.
    Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Everything about Elvis, including his death-by-cardiac-arrest at 42 in Graceland, is the stuff of opera.
    Guy Martin, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • By our points formula, a game in the 10s or below is D-grade, the 20s is average, the 30s above average, the 40s really good and 50s-plus next-stratosphere stuff.
    Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 9 Sep. 2025

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“Chattel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chattel. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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