thrall

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Recent Examples of thrall Chapters about Judy’s years running the farm and how women can be in the thrall of a charming but abusive man are interspersed with chapters about the investigation. Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 20 July 2025 Larson’s campaign finance reports reveal a veteran in the thrall of special interest contributors who provide most of the money for his relaxed re-election campaigns. Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 19 July 2025 Kevin acknowledges he was seduced by the thrall of easy money. Cezary Podkul, ProPublica, 25 June 2025 For the most part, open-source projects weren’t evenly distributed across teams of volunteers; they were managed by at most a few individuals, who spent the bulk of their waking hours in abject thrall to a user-complaint queue. Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 28 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for thrall
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Noun
  • His goal was to start a slave uprising, but few slaves joined the fight.
    Peter D'Abrosca, FOXNews.com, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Eventually, the larvae hijack the host’s brain, turning the caterpillar into their slave.
    Tyler Austin Harper, The Atlantic, 20 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Once freed from slavery, Washington toiled in coal mines, worked as a janitor in exchange for formal education and became a great American orator and leader of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.
    Jennifer Smith Richards, ProPublica, 22 Oct. 2025
  • How the stakeholders juggled those diametrically opposed ideas—liberty and self-governance but also slavery and their horrific treatment of the Native American population—is the part of the human experience that Burns is most interested in exploring.
    Carlo Versano, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025

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