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

But she isn’t permitted to subjugate her characters to advance her own agenda, no matter how well-intentioned.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 8, 2025

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

Charles XII subjugates Saxony; he dictates the Peace of Altranstaedt.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 12 by Rudd, John

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

Meanwhile, Kearney points out, Native American culture was being subjugated by institutions like the boarding schools for Native children, which suppressed Indigenous languages and practices.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 21, 2023

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

Over the course of the next 15 years, New Zealand was convulsed by the so-called Musket Wars, as musketless tribes either acquired muskets or were subjugated by tribes already armed with them.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

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

In Malofeev’s subjugating hands, Janácek’s vaporously evocative “In the Mists” became “In the Thick, Disorienting and Blinding Fog” and led, without a pause, into Liszt’s doomed and drummed “Funérailles,” creating an extraordinary sonic vista.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 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

The mission was complicated, retrieving a sacred relic that had been stolen by an ogre who was bent on subjugating the people of the land to his will.

From Little Brother by Doctorow, Cory