be subjected to

Example Sentences

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With this decision, the leaders and anyone associated with them can quickly be subjected to sanctions by the US Treasury Department.

From Barron's • May 29, 2026

Again, not a word about the coercive therapeutic context in which vulnerable minors will be subjected to those “ideas” and pressed to implement them.

From Slate • Apr. 3, 2026

Back then, debate over Geriatric Millennials sparked self-deprecating jokes, think pieces and quizzes dictating if you're meant to pile on the ribbing or be subjected to it.

From BBC • Jan. 17, 2026

The first core will soon be subjected to molecular analysis at Hokkaido University in northern Japan.

From Barron's • Nov. 7, 2025

If there now is to be any hope for conducting the match, Fischer must be subjected to just penalty.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady