subserviency

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for subserviency
Noun
  • Ray is the leader of a biker gang and demands utter subservience.
    Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 2 Oct. 2025
  • How does party capture — the subservience of entire systems — factor into this?
    Nikki McCann Ramirez, Rolling Stone, 22 Sep. 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
  • Supreme Court has seen this before The ruling in Harvard’s favor follows a long legal tradition of Supreme Court rulings that bar the government from demanding ideological acquiescence in exchange for support.
    Stephanie A, The Conversation, 17 Sep. 2025
  • 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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“Subserviency.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/subserviency. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.

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