subservience
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Maybe divine intervention wouldn’t be such a bad thing if utter subservience to billionaires, technology and manufactured loneliness is the alternative.
From Salon ● Dec. 21, 2025
It helped undo the damage done by the subservience in “I Dream of Jeannie.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 2, 2025
More and more women have been given a choice about how many children they will bear and that has opened up avenues to different lives, less confined to motherhood and economic subservience to men.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 5, 2024
It turns out that most people don’t want to be forced to be free, especially when that freedom means subservience to one’s supposed liberator.
From Slate ● Jan. 16, 2024
Women exchanged the maids’ uniforms of subservience for the white chadors of emancipation.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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