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Recent Examples of subservience
And, in a development that has been decades in the making, civil-rights laws have been reduced to cudgels for coercing universities into subservience.
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Jeannie Suk Gersen, New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2025
Trump and Vance demand absolute loyalty and subservience – as seen in their interactions with Zelensky.
—Greg Orme, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
Trad wives are typically conservative, usually Christians and post about things like cooking, cleaning and subservience to their husbands.
—Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 27 Feb. 2025
Virtually overnight, the new gender apartheid state rolled back laws and opportunities that had for decades already lifted Iranian women up from the subservience clerics demanded.
—Mariam Memarsadeghi, Newsweek, 13 Jan. 2025
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Jeannie Suk Gersen, New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2025
Trump and Vance demand absolute loyalty and subservience – as seen in their interactions with Zelensky.
—Greg Orme, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
Trad wives are typically conservative, usually Christians and post about things like cooking, cleaning and subservience to their husbands.
—Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 27 Feb. 2025
Virtually overnight, the new gender apartheid state rolled back laws and opportunities that had for decades already lifted Iranian women up from the subservience clerics demanded.
—Mariam Memarsadeghi, Newsweek, 13 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for subservience
Noun
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The major sticking point in negotiations that kept the strike going for nearly a year was protections surrounding generative A.I., which the gaming companies made significant acquiescences to come their best, last and final offer.—
Jennifer Maas,
Variety,
11 June 2025
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His goal seems to be to scare the public into acquiescence.—
Lisa Jarvis,
Mercury News,
6 June 2025
Noun
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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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We should be united about what’s at stake, compromise in deference to the facts, and work together to build what America needs.—
John Ketchum,
Fortune,
24 June 2025
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Even as Marine Corps recruiters promote enlistment as protection for families lacking legal status, directives for strict immigrant enforcement have cast away practices of deference previously afforded to military families, immigration law experts say.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
23 June 2025
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“Subservience.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/subservience. Accessed 8 Jul. 2025.
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