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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
Both parties are in the thrall of radical populists, nationalists on the right and progressives on the left, leaving conservatives and liberals out in the cold.
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Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 11 Apr. 2025
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.
—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
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Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 11 Apr. 2025
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.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for thrall
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The practice goes back to soon after the Civil War, when Congress ratified the Constitution’s 14th Amendment, in part to ensure that Black people, including former slaves, had citizenship.—
Tim Sullivan,
Chicago Tribune,
28 June 2025
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The other was used by people descended from slaves brought from Southeast Asia to work for the Afrikaner farmers.—
Carey Baraka,
The Dial,
26 June 2025
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The tragedy of slavery is also explored here, including an award-winning exhibit called Slavery and Cotton in the Shoals with work by textile artist Valerie S. Goodwin.—
Lisa Cericola,
Southern Living,
5 July 2025
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Douglass’s decision to speak on July 5, deliberately after Independence Day celebrations, symbolically underscored his argument: America’s celebration of freedom was bitterly ironic and deeply hypocritical in the context of slavery and racial oppression.—
Ed Gaskin,
Boston Herald,
4 July 2025
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“Thrall.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/thrall. Accessed 13 Jul. 2025.
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