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

This primitive warning system that is meant to serve us, can, instead, enslave.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel

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

Then he pauses and sinks in his chair and answers himself, "It is a handcuff that enslaves poor workers."

From Salon ● May 12, 2022

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

From these images, Jemisin spun out a four-hundred-page story about an empire that enslaves its deities.

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 20, 2020

Take no trouble On that head; because the service Of the arts enslaves nobody.

From The Trumpeter of Säkkingen A Song from the Upper Rhine. by Joseph Victor von Scheffel

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 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

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

The Merikins are the descendants of formerly enslaved African Americans who fought alongside the British during the War of 1812.

From Salon ● Sep. 29, 2026

While the food on Washington’s table was abundant and finely prepared, the usual diet of the enslaved field hands consisted of a basic ration of cornmeal, salt pork, and dried fish.

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