subjugate
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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
They were going to subjugate all of the Far East.
From "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand
It is, perhaps, a double whammy: The hierarchy that subjugates her also shames her.
From New York Times ● Sep. 17, 2021
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
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
Its characteristic peculiarity lies in the power with which it subjugates to the mind and to its ideas the sensuous element from which music and painting began to set art free.
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
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
Proponents of that approach insist that the joy of reading must not be subjugated to the mechanics of reading.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2023
Perhaps we are the invaded ones, the subjugated, used.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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
These campaigns succeeded in subjugating the Xiongnu and gaining control over the eastern terminus of the Silk Roads.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
He made his two brothers, and the thirty-three knights who joined him against the measures of the English regency, his puppets, allowing them no will of their own, but subjugating them entirely to his direction.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 10 by Various
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