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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
Like, why does everyone under Gladys' thrall run the same way, with wild eyes and their arms jutting out sharply to the side?
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EW.com, 8 Aug. 2025
Archer is now under the witch’s thrall.
—Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 8 Aug. 2025
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
Botnet Madness Botnet malware is useful for financially motivated crime because botmasters can tell the bots in their thrall to implant malware on vulnerable machines, send phishing emails, or engage in click fraud, in which botnets profit by directing bots to click pay-per-click ads.
—IEEE Spectrum, 23 May 2023
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EW.com, 8 Aug. 2025
Archer is now under the witch’s thrall.
—Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 8 Aug. 2025
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
Botnet Madness Botnet malware is useful for financially motivated crime because botmasters can tell the bots in their thrall to implant malware on vulnerable machines, send phishing emails, or engage in click fraud, in which botnets profit by directing bots to click pay-per-click ads.
—IEEE Spectrum, 23 May 2023
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Michigan's first African American congregation was founded by 13 former slaves in 1836 at the Second Baptist Church in Detroit.—
Jalen Williams,
Freep.com,
31 Jan. 2026
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Rusting chains rising from a concrete slab in the grass here tell the tale—from 1833 to 1863, this was the location of one of the largest slave markets in the United States.—
Joe Sills,
Forbes.com,
30 Jan. 2026
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The multi-instrumentalist released this song in the wake of George Floyd’s death taking those three devastating words as her title and tracing Black suffering all the way back to slavery.—
Brian Hiatt,
Rolling Stone,
1 Feb. 2026
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The state aimed but failed to pass legislation last year that would condemn the Treaty of Hartford, which in 1638 directed that Pequots who survived the war be sold into slavery.—
Livi Stanford,
Hartford Courant,
31 Jan. 2026
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“Thrall.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/thrall. Accessed 3 Feb. 2026.
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