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as in slave
a person who is considered the property of another person
I'm not your thrall, so you'll have to pick up after yourself
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as in slavery
the state of being an enslaved person
a people who still bear the scars of having been in thrall for so many years
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Recent Examples of thrall
The mystery of the contrail lent it a special power that held us in its thrall, bonding us at that early moment in our friendship.
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Kate Folk, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2025
Weegee’s Hollywood portraits, much like his earlier reportorial work, comment on a world increasingly held in the thrall of images.
—Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2025
As his life neared its end, however, Spencer expressed disappointment at the direction the Republican Party had taken, with so many in Trump’s personal thrall.
—Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2025
Last week wasn’t entirely in the thrall of Big Stupid, but the smart was coming from south and north of us.
—Pat Beall, Orlando Sentinel, 9 Feb. 2025
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Kate Folk, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2025
Weegee’s Hollywood portraits, much like his earlier reportorial work, comment on a world increasingly held in the thrall of images.
—Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2025
As his life neared its end, however, Spencer expressed disappointment at the direction the Republican Party had taken, with so many in Trump’s personal thrall.
—Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2025
Last week wasn’t entirely in the thrall of Big Stupid, but the smart was coming from south and north of us.
—Pat Beall, Orlando Sentinel, 9 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for thrall
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One vessel was renamed the USS Robert Smalls after a former slave who aided the Union in the Civil War, and the other was restyled the USNS Marie Tharp in honor of a ground-breaking oceanographic cartographer, according to the New York Times.—
Brendan Rascius,
Miami Herald,
4 June 2025
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Canadians are the people who really fought and helped escaped slaves, remember the Underground Railroad went to Canada.—
J.M. Banks,
Kansas City Star,
3 June 2025
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The festival also revealed programming in honor of Juneteenth — the day, now a federal holiday, that commemorates the end of slavery in the U.S.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
30 May 2025
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The outlet reports that the images were obtained by the university for Harvard biologist Louis Agassiz to use as evidence for a discredited pseudoscientific theory of Black racial inferiority in defense of slavery.—
Madison E. Goldberg,
People.com,
29 May 2025
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“Thrall.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/thrall. Accessed 12 Jun. 2025.
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