1
as in enslavement
the state of being an enslaved person
a child born into slavery
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2
as in labor
very hard or unpleasant work
endured the slavery of working in the coal mines every day of his adult life
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Recent Examples of slavery
These grand homes were built as the pre-Civil War cotton industry and slavery made many plantation owners extremely wealthy.
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Amy Bentley, Oc Register, 7 May 2025
There are reports of human trafficking and even slavery.
—Khaleda Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 May 2025
The long conflict over slavery—tens of thousands of white Marylanders fought on both sides of the Civil War—made many of Baltimore’s white residents fear and distrust the police.
—Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 5 May 2025
Nor was domestic slavery of an altogether different order.
—Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
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Amy Bentley, Oc Register, 7 May 2025
There are reports of human trafficking and even slavery.
—Khaleda Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 May 2025
The long conflict over slavery—tens of thousands of white Marylanders fought on both sides of the Civil War—made many of Baltimore’s white residents fear and distrust the police.
—Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 5 May 2025
Nor was domestic slavery of an altogether different order.
—Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for slavery
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Meanwhile, large estates may face lower labor productivity and escalating costs to maintain soil quality and water availability.—
Dianne Plummer,
Forbes.com,
21 May 2025
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Other unions have filed challenges to the executive order, but the engineers’ labor group was the first to secure a complaint against the Governor’s Office.—
William Melhado,
Sacbee.com,
21 May 2025
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Wilson responded, first disagreeing with Lackey’s assessment of the association between involuntary servitude in prisons and slavery.—
Jenavieve Hatch,
Sacbee.com,
26 Mar. 2025
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Broken shackles lie underneath the statue’s drapery, to symbolize the end of all types of servitude and oppression.—
Jack Guy,
CNN,
18 Mar. 2025
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While his admission may seem like a slight, cracking the list of the league’s top 10 defenders each season is a difficult task, particularly for perimeter players whose efforts aren’t as well represented by defensive metrics.—
Jace Frederick,
Twin Cities,
23 May 2025
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The center of this effort is a three-day Holiday Hype at the Banneker Recreation Center.—
Brady Knox,
The Washington Examiner,
23 May 2025
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Some of the photos and video images showed children 11 and younger in bondage and having sado-masochistic acts inflicted on them, according to a news release Thursday by U.S. Attorney Russ Ferguson’s office.—
Joe Marusak,
Charlotte Observer,
9 May 2025
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Gorsuch calls out 'bondage' in children’s LGBTQ storybook 3.—
FOXNews.com,
FOXNews.com,
24 Apr. 2025
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With this one invention, millions of secretaries would soon be relieved of the drudgery of constant retyping, and the business office would have a boon in productivity almost as profound as the one the typewriter itself had ushered in long before.—
Pat Butler,
Sportico.com,
16 May 2025
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But her return to the drudgery of chemotherapy several days later was a difficult comedown.—
Katherine Rosman,
New York Times,
1 May 2025
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People watch a live broadcast of Israeli-American soldier Edan Alexander as he is released from Hamas captivity in Gaza, at a plaza known as the hostages square in Tel Aviv, Monday, May 12, 2025.—
Haley Ott,
CBS News,
12 May 2025
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There are 59 hostages still in Gaza, at least 24 of whom are assessed to be alive, including Alexander, now 21 years old after having spent two birthdays in Hamas captivity.—
Stepheny Price , Yonat Friling,
FOXNews.com,
11 May 2025
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His instincts were forged during the Cultural Revolution, in the 1960s and 1970s, when his family fell from grace and he was sent to toil in rural Shaanxi.—
Zongyuan Zoe Liu,
Foreign Affairs,
29 Apr. 2025
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But this season has been one of toil as well as triumph, of inconsistency and dramatic defeats such as Saturday’s 4-1 loss at Aston Villa, as well as long winning runs and historic results.—
Chris Waugh,
New York Times,
22 Apr. 2025
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The Lounge is home to three simulators, all of which are built from parts salvaged from real airplanes, from the pilot chairs to yokes.—
Larry Olmsted,
Forbes.com,
26 Apr. 2025
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The ripstop is applied to the shirt’s pointed Western yoke, collar and chest flaps.—
Angela Velasquez,
Sourcing Journal,
11 Apr. 2025
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“Slavery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slavery. Accessed 28 May. 2025.
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