subordinated

past tense of subordinate

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of subordinated This is not to defend Cook, but rather to illustrate the parallelism and hypocrisy of the rule of law being subordinated to the law of the ruler. Jason Ma, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2025 Anyone who diverges from progressive orthodoxy is excluded from faculty ranks, free inquiry is subordinated to activism, and taxpayer funds flow into administrative bureaucracies that enforce political correctness. Ilya Shapiro, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Aug. 2025 This is a major change for a Republican Party that used to believe that character and behavior mattered and couldn’t be subordinated or overlooked. Colin Pascal, Baltimore Sun, 4 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for subordinated
Verb
  • Allsop was set to take passengers on a flight to Chicago before officers subjected him to a sobriety test.
    Colson Thayer, People.com, 20 Aug. 2025
  • As part of the program, the Willow Hill administrators faked the deaths of outcast patients and subjected them to secret tests in the basement of the facility.
    Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 11 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Yet, at the same time, few other countries’ recent football fortunes have been so dominated by talk of a particular era of players.
    Michael Cox, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2025
  • In the memory chips sector, China’s ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) and Yantze Memory Technologies (YMTC) have emerged as top contenders – at least in the country for now – in a market long dominated by Samsung, SK Hynix and America’s Micron.
    John Liu, CNN Money, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Establishing a legend The pilots quickly conquered their steep learning curve.
    Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 1 Sep. 2025
  • None of it can ever be truly conquered.
    Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 31 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Prestige beauty was flat as the market remained subdued.
    Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 4 Sep. 2025
  • There is nothing subdued or conciliatory in its account of the brutal transfer of power which comes when a parent is failing and a child assumes command.
    Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • And after Detroit defeated Green Bay, 34-31, in Week 14 last season, many Packers talked about wanting to see the Lions again in the postseason.
    Rob Reischel, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The team defeated the 49ers, 20-3, in front of a record-setting crowd.
    Kelsie Gibson, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2025

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“Subordinated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/subordinated. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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