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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
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.
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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
In 2021, Griswold launched an investigation into then-Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters following claims that the clerk, under the thrall of conspiracy theories of widespread voter fraud, granted unauthorized access to voting machines.
—Nick Coltrain, Denver Post, 7 Apr. 2025
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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
In 2021, Griswold launched an investigation into then-Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters following claims that the clerk, under the thrall of conspiracy theories of widespread voter fraud, granted unauthorized access to voting machines.
—Nick Coltrain, Denver Post, 7 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for thrall
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Over the centuries, Muslim traders built mosques and schools in sedate Tamale, which was more inland and distant from the direct links of the transatlantic slave and colonial trade.—
Edna Bonhomme,
Artforum,
1 Oct. 2025
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Beckett’s symbols of master and slave — the whip, the rope, the servant weighed down with baggage — are either mimed or cut and in doing so lose its real horror.—
Frank Rizzo,
Variety,
29 Sep. 2025
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Coven is one of the tighter narratives the series has mustered, with its true horror lying in the realities of slavery in the American South.—
James Mercadante,
Entertainment Weekly,
1 Oct. 2025
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While the issues roiling America today may be more nuanced than slavery, there are still stark contrasts—forces of democracy and authoritarianism that can pretty fairly be described as right and wrong.—
Miguel Sirgado,
Miami Herald,
30 Sep. 2025
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“Thrall.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/thrall. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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