subjugated
Example Sentences
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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
“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
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
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
