indentured

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Recent Examples of indentured Among her ancestors: John Howland, who arrived as an indentured servant; Elizabeth Tilley, who was a passenger along with her parents and married Howland three years after arriving; and Richard Warren, who helped explore Cape Cod to find areas to settle. Lois K. Solomon, Sun Sentinel, 27 Nov. 2024 The young man probably arrived from England in the 1630s as a cabin boy or an indentured servant. Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Dec. 2023 Both the levelers among the founders and their critics agreed on where the wealth necessary for the new nation would come from: the expropriation of Native Americans, as well as from slave and indentured labor. Danielle Allen, Foreign Affairs, 14 Dec. 2015 But most indentured people really weren’t given a choice. Logan Jaffe, ProPublica, 19 June 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for indentured
Adjective
  • The actual freeing of enslaved people occurred at varying times throughout the territories where slavery existed, depending on how far the Union Army had advanced.
    Hank Beckman, Chicago Tribune, 23 June 2025
  • The video, which was recorded at a store in Atlanta, Georgia, showed several cakes minimally decorated in honor of the federal holiday on June 19, which marks the 1865 emancipation of the last enslaved people in the United States.
    Betty Lin-Fisher, USA Today, 21 June 2025
Adjective
  • The film is another attempt to reinvent the zombie-movie-genre wheel wholesale, and the result is both audacious and bound to be divisive.
    Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 24 June 2025
  • The Yankees managed just five base runners off Crochet before Judge finally unloaded on a pitch, driving a towering shot that seemed bound to clank off the Citgo sign well beyond Fenway Park’s dimensions.
    Chris Kirschner, New York Times, 14 June 2025
Adjective
  • Varsity last year settled an $82.5 million antitrust class-action lawsuit brought by a class of cheer customers who alleged the company used monopolistic practices to exploit its captive market.
    Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 18 June 2025
  • There are about 29,000 to 30,000 captive portfolio companies sitting in private equity funds that have yet to be monetized, and 50% of them are at least four years or so in terms of the investment cycle.
    Megan Poinski, Forbes.com, 17 June 2025

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“Indentured.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/indentured. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.

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