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Recent Examples of indentured servant
Mattai’s multimedia objects, which examine the present-day legacy of her family’s past as indentured servants in Guyana, is thoughtful, colorful and complicated.
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John Wenzel, The Know, 24 Dec. 2019
As late as 1964, Bo and Lake Giles were still toiling like indentured servants.
—CBS News, 23 Dec. 2019
Before then, more families lived on farms, out of sight of surveillance, and children could be their parents’ little workers—indentured servants until adulthood.
—Lynne Tillman, Harper's magazine, 25 Nov. 2019
At the time, the tobacco economy relied on white and black indentured servants with finite contracts and some rights under the law.
—Erin Blakemore, National Geographic, 8 Nov. 2019
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John Wenzel, The Know, 24 Dec. 2019
As late as 1964, Bo and Lake Giles were still toiling like indentured servants.
—CBS News, 23 Dec. 2019
Before then, more families lived on farms, out of sight of surveillance, and children could be their parents’ little workers—indentured servants until adulthood.
—Lynne Tillman, Harper's magazine, 25 Nov. 2019
At the time, the tobacco economy relied on white and black indentured servants with finite contracts and some rights under the law.
—Erin Blakemore, National Geographic, 8 Nov. 2019
See All Example Sentences for indentured servant
Recent Examples of Synonyms for indentured servant
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News reports gleefully described his six houses, his sixteen Chinese servants, his lavish parties, his $2,000 cashmere suits, and his twelve cars—one of which was a champagne-pink Cadillac with his name splashed across the side in neon lights.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
25 Mar. 2026
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That conceptual tension has led early users to experience agentic AI as a sort of bossy servant.—
Harmeet Kaur,
CNN Money,
25 Mar. 2026
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“Indentured servant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/indentured%20servant. Accessed 3 Apr. 2026.
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