subservience
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“You are choosing personal ambition over professional integrity and subservience over leadership.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026
It also just seems so weird, because it’s all about showing subservience, or showing that you have some loyalty.
From Slate ● Mar. 4, 2026
The utter subservience of American pop culture to baby boomers over the past 50-odd years has engendered justifiable resentment among members of the subsequent alphabet generations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 23, 2025
He is emotionally weakened to the point of subservience — to tech, to conspiracy, and humor; anything that will restore some meaning.
From Salon ● Apr. 19, 2025
Women exchanged the maids’ uniforms of subservience for the white chadors of emancipation.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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