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Recent Examples of indenture In a little over a year, my three-decade indenture as a full-time laundress will come to an end. Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2024 This smashes every indenture that binds a Negro child other than as a white child should be bound! Anna Deavere Smith, The Atlantic, 13 Nov. 2023 In the mid–seventeenth century, fearful that the growing class of temporary and former servants might displace them, white property owners passed laws that phased out indentures for white people and established a system of chattel slavery (permanent and heritable) for Black people. Scott W. Stern, The New Republic, 26 June 2023 Instead, Said found a Russian to take over his indenture, Nicholas Vassilievich Trubetzkoy, a 22-year-old godson of Czar Nicholas, who taught him Russian. Martha Anne Toll, Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2023 See All Example Sentences for indenture
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Noun
  • Toronto has plenty of holes in the roster to add talent.
    Zach Pressnell, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 July 2025
  • It's rumored that there are 18 holes on a course because there are 18 shots in a bottle of scotch.
    Tim Corlett, Forbes.com, 11 July 2025
Noun
  • In May, Huang said chip restrictions had already cut Nvidia’s China market share nearly in half.
    Dylan Butts, CNBC, 14 July 2025
  • Despite a $20 billion investment in new chip factories and billions in federal funding, Intel reported significant losses and leadership changes.
    Sasha Hupka, AZCentral.com, 14 July 2025
Noun
  • Resorts here celebrate nature at every turn, from their activities (whitewater rafting, snowmobiling) to their designs (outdoor fire pits, floor-to-ceiling windows).
    Sarah Bruning, Travel + Leisure, 8 July 2025
  • However, tensions flared up on pit road between both drivers after Logano confronted Chastain.
    Saajan Jogia, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 July 2025
Noun
  • Developer Patrick Madden indents to bring a Wawa convenience store to the site as well as 240 apartments spread across multiple three-story buildings.
    Matthew Glowicki, The Courier-Journal, 13 July 2025
  • Unlike the grooves of a normal road wheel, its surface is almost completely smooth except for small indents, patterned differently between front and back wheel, which are designed to just slightly roughen the air, encouraging the right level of turbulent flow.
    Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 11 July 2025
Noun
  • Marseille continued to plough its own furrow over the next few centuries, only very reluctantly agreeing to become the capital of Bouches-du-Rhône in 1790 when France was divided into its current regional system of departments.
    The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 20 June 2025
  • Eyes dart, brows furrow, and Holliday lets slip a slight grin, before skinning that smoke wagon and firing one shot into Ringo’s forehead.
    Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 2 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • These white jeans that come in a classic straight-leg style and have a breezy side slit.
    Nicol Natale, People.com, 11 July 2025
  • When approaching a sea turtle egg, the ghost crab will snip a distinctive slit into eggshells.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 10 July 2025
Noun
  • Barred owls are quite territorial and are generally considered cavity nesters.
    The San Diego Union Tribune, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 July 2025
  • This partially or fully severs the turtle’s head before the crab feeds from the cavity.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 10 July 2025
Noun
  • According to the study authors, while the circular indentations may be tied to the theropod’s attempts at nest building, the scratches are more likely the remains of their ritual dance-offs, in which male dinosaurs dug deep into the sand, slashing their claws and sending spews of dust into the air.
    Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 27 June 2025
  • Analyzing Neanderthal Art The object, before being fully excavated and after, with three main indentations and a red dot.
    Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 27 May 2025

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“Indenture.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/indenture. Accessed 24 Jul. 2025.

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