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Noun
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How does party capture — the subservience of entire systems — factor into this?—
Nikki McCann Ramirez,
Rolling Stone,
22 Sep. 2025 -
Liberties and wellbeing take on greater importance while the population demands more subservience from its government.—
Rafael Perez,
Oc Register,
14 Sep. 2025
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All of this amounts to a rounding error for the tech giants—averaged out, YouTube made more than $107 million from ad revenue every single day last quarter—but these are still acts of profound obsequiousness and corporate cowardice.—
Charlie Warzel,
The Atlantic,
1 Oct. 2025
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Trump doesn’t have much to show for his obsequiousness.—
Steven Greenhut,
Oc Register,
12 Sep. 2025
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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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Sammy’s awareness of his mother’s infidelity, his father’s complaisance, and how both were relieved by his creative Boy Scout merit-badge projects and fantasies requires a separate article.—
Armond White,
National Review,
16 Nov. 2022
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“Slavishness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slavishness. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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