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subservient

[suhb-sur-vee-uhnt] / səbˈsɜr vi ənt /




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We should neither be wholly distrustful of expertise nor subservient to it without critical challenge.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

We decline to think like machines or be subservient to machines.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026

There is evidence that opinion appears to be changing as fans find out what it means to be the perceived subservient partner.

From BBC ● Jan. 12, 2026

"Like Musharraf, he has a subservient prime minister and the authority to reshape the army's structure," he said.

From Barron's ● Nov. 14, 2025

This wasn’t like the small group of subservient workers we’d known at the Academy or the doublefile inmates from the roomier halls of Coxsackie.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover




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