as in deference
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for subordinateness
Noun
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But in deference to the Cavaliers, that’s what good teams can do, basically take the temperature of the game, measure what is needed, and then seize the moment when the moment needs to be seized.—
Ira Winderman,
Sun Sentinel,
23 Apr. 2025 -
White House budget requests are usually only aspirational documents to outline administration priorities and are ignored by lawmakers, but this Congress has shown an extreme deference to President Trump.—
Nathaniel Weixel,
The Hill,
16 Apr. 2025
Noun
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But McDougal offers a different path—one of humility, co-creation, and relational wisdom.—
Rebekah Bastian,
Forbes.com,
28 Apr. 2025
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Over his term, Francis became known for his humility and calls for peace during major global challenges, including the COVID-19 pandemic and the Gaza humanitarian crisis.—
Solcyré Burga,
Time,
22 Apr. 2025
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Most Canadians want uncomplicated lives, a desire for calm that can be misinterpreted by louder people as meekness.—
Chris Jones,
The Atlantic,
14 Mar. 2025
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Standing next to a record player in a sports jacket and turtleneck, Kaufman, with a kind of bulging meekness, a glisteningly gleeful timidity, puts the needle on the record.—
James Parker,
The Atlantic,
10 Feb. 2025
Noun
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And, in a development that has been decades in the making, civil-rights laws have been reduced to cudgels for coercing universities into subservience.—
Jeannie Suk Gersen,
New Yorker,
15 Apr. 2025
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Trump and Vance demand absolute loyalty and subservience – as seen in their interactions with Zelensky.—
Greg Orme,
Forbes,
6 Mar. 2025
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Military leaders pushed those possibilities to hellish extremes, following the logic that killing civilians might induce surrender.—
Colin Jones,
New Yorker,
25 Apr. 2025
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History has long taught us that such appeasement doesn’t work when concession is seen as weakness—or even as surrender.—
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld,
Time,
19 Apr. 2025
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The scheme depends on Trump’s support and Russian President Vladimir Putin’s acquiescence.—
Barry R. Posen,
Foreign Affairs,
21 Apr. 2025
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The key phrase here: harm reduction, or acquiescence to hard drug use.—
Howard Husock,
New York Daily News,
19 Mar. 2025
Noun
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To pursue genuine internationalism, liberals also need to develop a degree of modesty about democracy itself.—
Anatol Lieven,
Harper's Magazine,
19 Feb. 2025
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In the article Culpo makes a few comments about the modesty of her Dolce & Gabbana dress that rub some readers the wrong way, and the situation spirals into a full-on controversy.—
Elizabeth Logan,
Glamour,
10 Mar. 2025
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Kyiv says those demands are tantamount to demanding its capitulation.—
Bart H. Meijer and Gabriel Stargardter,
USA Today,
19 Apr. 2025
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In two months’ time, the U.S. economy may well be in a state of disarray, consumer confidence and confidence in the president will likely have plummeted further, and the world will be watching and waiting for his capitulation. Follow me on LinkedIn.—
Mike O'Sullivan,
Forbes.com,
17 Apr. 2025
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