enslave
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“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
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
Moreover, it can be argued that every institution devised by humans has been used to enslave other humans.
From Salon ● May 11, 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
We expect great things from men who have made such a noble stand against the designs of their fellow-men to enslave them.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
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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
And he argues, of course, this point with regard to the African-American neighbors he enslaves, but he also applies that to the North.
From Slate ● Oct. 26, 2020
But those defense mechanisms, when fortified by narcissism, become an emotional-cognitive web that ensnares and enslaves us, and blinds us to the reality of who we are and what the world around us is like.
From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2020
Moreover, every repetition further breaks down the present resistance and, therefore, in a sense further enslaves the individual to that mode of action.
From Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education by Ontario. Ministry of Education
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
The history of the Junkanoo is not clear but it's believed it emerged out of the slave trade when enslaved men and women were given time off to mark Christmas.
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 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
The superb cast also includes Janai Brugger as the enslaved Mrs. Francis Hodge, perched on a tree branch, who demands revenge on the man who stole her children in a furious high soprano.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
The enslaved people who had miraculously made it to shore had not, however, found freedom.
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
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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
One of them, an intricately carved throne, expresses the Kingdom of Dahomey’s expansionist practice of enslaving captured enemies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2024
“You’ll learn, young brotha. You’ll learn. The Europeans succeeded in denigrating and enslaving peoples of African descent, but there’s royal blood flowing through your veins, you hear me?”
From "Dear Martin" by Nic Stone
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