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thralldom

noun

variants or thraldom
Definition of thralldomnext
as in slavery
the state of being an enslaved person having known only thralldom, the people rejoiced in their newfound freedom

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Recent Examples of thralldom Even in sports, where a thralldom to analytics dictates how the games will be played. — Colin Fleming, New York Daily News, 4 July 2026
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slavery
Noun
  • Cora, the granddaughter of a woman kidnapped from West Africa and sold into slavery, flees her captor’s plantation, plunging her into the book’s alternate steampunk reality where she is pursued by the merciless slave catcher Ridgeway.
    — David Faris, TheWeek, 16 Sep. 2026
  • There were none available when someone should have wiped from existence a hype video that used the painful history of slavery and the Civil War as college football rivalry fodder.
    — Joe Rexrode, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of slavery

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“Thralldom.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/thralldom. Accessed 23 Sep. 2026.

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