subserviency

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Noun
  • Republican subservience is slowly beginning to wane.
    Rafael Perez, Oc Register, 30 Nov. 2025
  • The word captured the growing frustration with internet subservience and AI overlords.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 13 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • All of this amounts to a rounding error for the tech giants—averaged out, YouTube made more than $107 million from ad revenue every single day last quarter—but these are still acts of profound obsequiousness and corporate cowardice.
    Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Trump doesn’t have much to show for his obsequiousness.
    Steven Greenhut, Oc Register, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Yet electing to be private doesn’t amount to complaisance or complicity.
    Lesley M.M. Blume, Town & Country, 6 Dec. 2022
  • 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
Noun
  • Passage of this resolution was tantamount to acquiescence by Congress, granting the president the authority to respond militarily by sending thousands of troops to fight in Vietnam.
    Richard Cherwitz, Sun Sentinel, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Despite that goal, the Utah Legislature’s Republican supermajority, with Cox’s acquiescence, has taken a hard turn against solar power — which has been coming online faster than any other source in Utah and accounts for two-thirds of the new projects waiting to connect to the state’s power grid.
    Anjeanette Damon, ProPublica, 12 Dec. 2025
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“Subserviency.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/subserviency. Accessed 19 Jan. 2026.

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