as in conquest
the act or process of bringing someone or something under one's control
a time when the subjecting of much of Asia and Africa to European rule was at its culmination
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as in subduing
to bring under one's control by force of arms
Attila the Hun subjected most of Europe to his barbaric pillage
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Recent Examples of subjecting
Jeremy Gorner,
Chicago Tribune,
27 June 2026
The reason for that, Rogers said, was to avoid subjecting Goodloe to further trauma.
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Lillie Davidson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
26 June 2026
Minnesota is among the states with a history of forcibly removing Indigenous children from their families and subjecting them to years in boarding schools that aimed to erase Native cultures, inflicting centuries of intergenerational trauma.
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Wcco Staff,
CBS News,
23 June 2026
To avoid subjecting yourself to heat stress, try to do most of your outdoor work in the early morning or at dusk when the weather is cooler.
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Lauren Landers,
Better Homes & Gardens,
15 June 2026
Unlike a rocket, which accelerates to escape velocity over a few minutes, subjecting its crew to strong but survivable g-forces, a projectile fired from a cannon accelerates almost instantaneously.
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Neil Oseman,
Space.com,
14 June 2026
The move comes after Anthropic’s receipt of a US Commerce Department directive Friday evening, subjecting the new models to export controls restricting their use anywhere outside the United States.
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ArsTechnica,
13 June 2026
Such orders are intended to prevent an individual from subjecting another person to acts of violence, intimidation or harassment.
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ABC News,
3 June 2026
The group spent years subjecting the gastric juice to a special kind of screening process.
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Sara Talpos — Undark,
STAT,
1 June 2026
Verb
Wells-Barnett was born into slavery in 1862 in Holly Springs, Mississippi, before documenting the lynching of Black Americans in the late 1800s, subjecting her to threats.
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Jeremy Gorner,
Chicago Tribune,
27 June 2026
The reason for that, Rogers said, was to avoid subjecting Goodloe to further trauma.
—
Lillie Davidson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
26 June 2026
Minnesota is among the states with a history of forcibly removing Indigenous children from their families and subjecting them to years in boarding schools that aimed to erase Native cultures, inflicting centuries of intergenerational trauma.
—
Wcco Staff,
CBS News,
23 June 2026
To avoid subjecting yourself to heat stress, try to do most of your outdoor work in the early morning or at dusk when the weather is cooler.
—
Lauren Landers,
Better Homes & Gardens,
15 June 2026
Unlike a rocket, which accelerates to escape velocity over a few minutes, subjecting its crew to strong but survivable g-forces, a projectile fired from a cannon accelerates almost instantaneously.
—
Neil Oseman,
Space.com,
14 June 2026
The move comes after Anthropic’s receipt of a US Commerce Department directive Friday evening, subjecting the new models to export controls restricting their use anywhere outside the United States.
—
ArsTechnica,
13 June 2026
Such orders are intended to prevent an individual from subjecting another person to acts of violence, intimidation or harassment.
—
ABC News,
3 June 2026
The group spent years subjecting the gastric juice to a special kind of screening process.
—
Sara Talpos — Undark,
STAT,
1 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for subjecting
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To that point, human history was a tale of conquest and caste and rigid hierarchies, a world where the strong dominated the weak, where power and wealth and status flowed through lineage and the many were ruled by the few.
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Related Stories What these producers share is a conviction that the Canaries’ historical position — as a staging post for conquest, migration and ecological transformation — generates stories with the kind of cross-cultural resonance that buyers in Japan, West Asia and Latin America will recognize.
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Viewers have already seen glimpses of the premiere, which involves Aang and Katara subduing a sea serpent while guiding refugees across a treacherous path.
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Officers then shot her with a Taser, subduing her enough to take her into custody, police said.
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For many families, the dream of an athletic scholarship begins long before a child can read, with toddlers in team gear and a single sport dominating childhood.
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The 1921 geometric painting is one of the earliest examples of Mondrain’s creations that have a single large square acting as a dominating force in a work, an asymmetrical design that shines a light on the right side.
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Olivia Rodrigo Finally Hits the Downloads Chart’s Summit Rodrigo has come very close to conquering the Official Album Downloads chart in the past, but her first two studio LPs missed the throne by just one space.
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For decades, biologists thought that early tetrapods, ancient vertebrates that started conquering the land over 300 million years ago, developed like modern amphibians—beginning their lives as purely aquatic tadpoles and then metamorphosing into terrestrial adults.
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The Handmaid's Tale spared no sensitivities when diving into the cruelest treatment people like June, and even Lydia, experience at the hands of a totalitarian system bent on the total subjection of women.
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As the man brawls with his in-laws, the boy is caught between two worlds, of male rage and female subjection.
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The first ever major league game to be played in Europe resulted in the Yankees defeating the Red Sox 17-13 in front of 60,000 spectators at London Olympic Stadium.
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The team displayed impressive form in the preliminary tournament qualifiers, winning all eight of its matches, scoring 37 goals, and defeating four-time World Cup champions Italy twice.
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Complete domination from Portugal in the first half.
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After all, the statistical domination was quite clear.
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The strategies aim to do away with piecemeal approaches to overcoming the unique challenges that islands and coastal communities face, offering a comprehensive approach, said Raffaele Fitto, European Commission executive vice president for cohesion and reforms.
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How did overcoming addiction play a role in this album?
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“Subjecting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/subjecting. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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