subjugate

He was just a young man looking at a symbol of power and not caring much about who that power was used to subjugate.

From Slate ● Jul. 10, 2026

Gerwig made Louisa May Alcott’s language her own for 2019’s “Little Women” and I don’t expect her to subjugate her signature voice to C.S.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 1, 2026

In 1876 President Ulysses S. Grant ordered the Army to subjugate the traditionals.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025

As he told the court that Combs had used his fame and power to "subjugate" his victims, the music mogul did not look up, remaining expressionless for the judge's 20-minute speech.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2025

Wayna Qhapaq liked his new quarters so much that he stayed on while Atawallpa and his generals went out to subjugate a few more provinces.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

It recounts the terror of falling in love—how the process subjugates people, leaves them vulnerable.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 1, 2018

It's just another way our society subjugates men's emotions and it's really a shame.

From New York Times ● Jan. 18, 2015

I read all the recent controversy surrounding Elisabeth Badinter's book, The Conflict, in which Badinter suggests breastfeeding and attachment parenting subjugates working women.

From New York Times ● Jul. 25, 2012

On the other, it has tended to finesse or sidestep the issue of whether polygamy itself, or polygamy as practiced by the Henricksons, empowers or subjugates women.

From Time ● Mar. 21, 2011

Not he who kills and subjugates, but he who makes life safe and happy, shall have the statue set up in his honor.

From The Social Principles of Jesus by Walter Rauschenbusch

Mr. Higham accepts that these newcomers violently subjugated some regions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026

Kaunda's message was clear - black Africans must no longer be subjugated.

From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2026

“I see my work as using health technologies that could preserve access to health for all people who have been subjugated to evil. That includes, at its most extreme, genocide,” Tabussam said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2024

Catanzaro Prosecutor Nicola Gratteri, one of Italy's best-known anti-Mafia investigators, said in a press conference that regional politicians and public administrators had been "subjugated" by mobsters during 2014-2020.

From Reuters ● Jun. 27, 2023

Yet a third theory is that the Zapotec of Monte Alban—not the Olmec of La Venta—consolidated to form North America’s first imperialist power, an aggressive state that subjugated dozens of other villages.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

Aubrecht watches from afar as Yscalin falls to Fýredel, its ruler and populace subjugating themselves to the cruel dragons, desperate to avoid their wrath.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026

His administration has helped keep Russia from subjugating the country, which was part of the Soviet Union before achieving its independence in 1991.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 12, 2023

A colonialist at heart, he is only truly at peace when subjugating, collecting and filing away.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2023

He campaigned nearly every year of his reign, conquering land and subjugating peoples across central Europe.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

In essence it is the problem that is ever before humanity—that of subjugating forces to its own welfare.

From Religion & Sex Studies in the Pathology of Religious Development by Chapman Cohen