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

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

They are only a sticking point for would-be kings and despots who successfully deceive and subjugate the masses.

From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2025

If Minya had gotten Skathis’s power, she wondered, would she be any different from him, or would she willingly subjugate a whole population, and justify it all within the rigid parameters of justice.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

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

But the woman in turn subjugates the man by the mystery of gentleness in beauty, and the saint has always charmed the world by something similar.

From Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature by William James

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

From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2026

The pavilions are scattered in seemingly haphazard fashion, in keeping with Mr. Govan’s conviction that visitors should follow their own curiosity and make their own connections without being subjugated to a hierarchy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

In the early 1890s, U.S. political and military leaders tried to outlaw the Ghost Dance, fearing the movement was a precursor to an uprising in communities it subjugated.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 7, 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

Perhaps we are the invaded ones, the subjugated, used.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas

However, once Hernán Cortés triumphed, the conquistadors went from waging war — vanquishing the Aztecs — to the project of subjugating Indigenous holdouts and building a self-sustaining territory loyal to the crown.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 23, 2026

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

In nearly every tale that involves a subjugating force, the individual bucking the system may win the day but lose the war.

From Salon ● Dec. 29, 2025

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

Then Miss Worth, knowing where to look, reached out with all the potent power of her subjugating diplomacy to extirpate the roots of this melancholy plant that grew and threatened to overrun a beautiful soul.

From The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky by Everett MacDonald