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Noun
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Japan may need to choose between accepting subservience to China and building up the military capacity necessary for independent deterrence.—
Robert Kagan,
The Atlantic,
18 Jan. 2026 -
Republican subservience is slowly beginning to wane.—
Rafael Perez,
Oc Register,
30 Nov. 2025
Noun
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The obsequiousness, the sneers, the boasting, the vacant generalities, and the hand-waving bespeak fear of departing from the Trumpian orthodoxy of the moment.—
Eliot A. Cohen,
The Atlantic,
29 Jan. 2026
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The overconfidence and obsequiousness of LLMs are training choices.—
Bruce Schneier,
IEEE Spectrum,
21 Jan. 2026
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The steadfast pushback against the administration might appear on the surface to be an encouraging trend, given the complaisance of the Republican majorities in Congress and weak-kneed capitulation to Trump by leaders of institutions such as universities and major corporations.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Feb. 2026
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Yet electing to be private doesn’t amount to complaisance or complicity.—
Lesley M.M. Blume,
Town & Country,
6 Dec. 2022
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“Slavishness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slavishness. Accessed 20 Feb. 2026.
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