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as in slaves
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 slaveries
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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slaves
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He's heard that if a black person becomes president, white people become slaves.—
Gail Sheehy,
Vanity Fair,
20 Feb. 2026 -
The park service removed explanatory panels last month from Independence National Historical Park, the site where George and Martha Washington lived with nine of their slaves in the 1790s, when Philadelphia was briefly the nation’s capital.—
Matthew Daly,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Feb. 2026
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“Thralls.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/thralls. Accessed 28 Feb. 2026.
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