helot

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Recent Examples of helot The 300 Spartans stood at the head of a force of approximately 7,000 other Greeks, not to mention their own helot slaves, who fought as light infantry. Myke Cole, The New Republic, 1 Aug. 2019
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Noun
  • And that’s exactly what Hub gets when attempting to arrest two criminals who have escaped bail, but who end up catching the bondsman off-guard, shooting him with a shotgun blast (a bulletproof vest saves his life) and then ultimately slitting his throat with a knife.
    Demetrius Patterson, HollywoodReporter, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Hub is a second-generation bondsman, having followed in the footsteps of his acerbic mother — and, as a middle-aged divorcée, roommate — Kitty (Beth Grant).
    Alison Herman, Variety, 3 Apr. 2025

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“Helot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/helot. Accessed 2 May. 2025.

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