subserviency

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for subserviency
Noun
  • David Mareuil / Anadolu via Getty Images Signs on a truck denounce Japan's subservience to the U.S. as people take part to the 96th May Day rally on May 1, 2025 in Tokyo, Japan.
    CBS News, CBS News, 1 May 2025
  • 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
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
  • If anything, acquiescence would create a further basis to claim that the university is not compliant, which risks even more encroachments on academic freedom.
    Jeannie Suk Gersen, New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2025
  • Details of such bills are typically negotiated between the two parties, particularly because votes in the Senate require 60 votes to pass, effectively requiring acquiescence of the minority party.
    Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 17 Mar. 2025
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“Subserviency.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/subserviency. Accessed 21 May. 2025.

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