enslave

“Although people aren’t necessarily enslaved by it, people enslave themselves to it because they’re told how fantastic it is to help manifest these illusions for a corporate sponsor.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 2, 2026

“Proper is a word forged by men who would seek to enslave us with it,” Lucretia counsels Ilithyia.

From Salon ● Dec. 20, 2025

Superfly is constructing a device to turn all animals into mutants and enslave the human race, and the heroes enter into a color explosion epic battle to stop him.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 22, 2023

But last week Hinton quit Google so he could speak freely about his fears that A.I. systems would soon become smarter than us and gain the power to enslave or kill us.

From Slate ● May 9, 2023

By 1942, however, we knew that the Germans were working feverishly to find a way to add atomic energy to all the other engines of war with which they hoped to enslave the world.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut

Later, it did duty as a lower level of Nibelheim, where Alberich enslaves his fellow Nibelungs as the first step in his quest for world domination.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 14, 2023

Speaking to supporters at the end of his Socialist Party's three-day congress in Valencia, Mr Sanchez said that the practice "enslaves" women.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2021

Were we talking about a Terminator scenario, were a Skynettian matrix of superintelligent machines gains consciousness and either destroys or enslaves humanity in order to further its particular goals?

From Slate ● Feb. 28, 2017

“Man’s own deed becomes an alien power opposed to him, which enslaves him instead of being controlled by him,” as Marx put it.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 3, 2016

If the State taxes him moderately, the money-lender enslaves him by means of promissory notes, and soon turns him into the simple tenant of soil belonging in reality to a financial company.

From The Conquest of Bread by Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin, Prince

Ross Kelbaugh, a researcher and collector of most of the photos in the exhibition, said perhaps it was circulated at abolitionist meetings to ask: "How could this 'institution' keep these little girls enslaved?"

From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2026

He visited Independence Park in Georgetown to remember the Demerera Slave Rebellion of 1823, which saw an uprising by thousands of enslaved people.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

Yet Indigenous and enslaved African populations did not simply take on these symbols of subjugation; they absorbed and subverted them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

Willingly or not, as one 19th-century essayist put it, Shaw became “a voluntary sacrifice on the altar of Liberty for an enslaved race.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

Rarely displaying affection in his life or letters, Washington showed his gratitude to the enslaved man who had been his constant companion.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis

The financing contributed to England's role in enslaving around three million African men, women and children, of whom an estimated half a million died during forced transportation, King's College London said.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

But it was extremely hypocritical of the U.S. to condemn the Barbary states for enslaving a few hundred Americans given, you know, the extensive enslavement of hundreds of thousands of Africans on American soil.

From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2026

France abolished enslaving humans more than 170 years ago, and in 2001 recognised slavery and the slave trade as "crimes against humanity".

From Barron's ● May 28, 2026

Growing up watching those movies and reading comics and science fiction, the idea of robot overlords enslaving humanity was always close at hand.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 26, 2024

“But with binding magic, you’re basically enslaving a spirit. Like the corpuscules? Someone with binding magic captured a spirit and then shadowshaped it into Ol’ Vernon’s corpse and sent it to do their bidding.

From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older