subjection
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Ms. Smith touts the untamed imagination as an antidote to the realities of war and subjection.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
Thurman prioritizes a more fragile site of subjection: the soul.
From Salon • Feb. 19, 2024
Where colonial literature either struggled to translate the finer contours of traditional African gender arrangements or offered only a cursory sketch of their subjection, Sembène stayed attuned to the shades of women’s displacement.
From New York Times • Sep. 8, 2023
Only when people begin to imagine a full emancipation, do they perceive the full extent of their subjection.
From BBC • Sep. 1, 2023
They had tamed the bush, and in return it yielded them their food and their scant living from trap lines and a wood lot, but the struggle to keep it in subjection was endless.
From "The Incredible Journey" by Sheila Burnford
Vocabulary lists containing subjection
1984
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Novel Study: Antigone, Pages 1–21
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On Liberty
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