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Recent Examples of subservience
California Federal agents denied entry to Dodger Stadium parking lot: Here is what really happened
June 20, 2025
The Dodgers learned what many Trump voters already learned, which is that Agent Orange doesn’t always reward subservience.
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Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2025
Russia has not budged one inch from its demand for total capitulation and subservience from Kyiv, and has only increased its missile barrage on Ukrainian cities.
—Trudy Rubin, Twin Cities, 8 June 2025
In other ways, this passive social robot design aligns with paternalistic standards that link assistance to subservience.
—IEEE Spectrum, 3 June 2025
Moore's Michaela is mysterious, commanding, and beyond wealthy, described in the trailer and elsewhere as someone with the ability to charm into subservience.
—Randall Colburn, EW.com, 22 May 2025
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Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2025
Russia has not budged one inch from its demand for total capitulation and subservience from Kyiv, and has only increased its missile barrage on Ukrainian cities.
—Trudy Rubin, Twin Cities, 8 June 2025
In other ways, this passive social robot design aligns with paternalistic standards that link assistance to subservience.
—IEEE Spectrum, 3 June 2025
Moore's Michaela is mysterious, commanding, and beyond wealthy, described in the trailer and elsewhere as someone with the ability to charm into subservience.
—Randall Colburn, EW.com, 22 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for subservience
Noun
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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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For another recent client, the board’s questions about his employer’s stock vesting schedule had Bari, the client, his agent, and the listing agent go through four rounds of revisions to ensure their response nailed a just-right level of obsequiousness.—
Matthew Sedacca,
Curbed,
11 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Yet, the lesson of the Voting Rights Act is that the response to these setbacks isn’t despair or acquiescence.—
Time,
Time,
12 Sep. 2025
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Perhaps the most disturbing aspect of this revenge is the acquiescence of his support base and the GOP representatives to the raw hatred unleashed by our Emir of Evil.—
DP Opinion,
Denver Post,
2 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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In deference to the late, great Ryne Sandberg, who died from acute prostate cancer this past July at 65, this column about the current Cubs-Padres Wild Card Series at Wrigley Field is for him.—
Barry M. Bloom,
Sportico.com,
1 Oct. 2025
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For human rights advocates, Johnson’s reluctance to forcefully criticize Bukele at the time was a sign of his undue deference to the Salvadoran leader.—
T. Christian Miller,
ProPublica,
30 Sep. 2025
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“Subservience.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/subservience. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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