subjugation
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Yet Indigenous and enslaved African populations did not simply take on these symbols of subjugation; they absorbed and subverted them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
Scottish investors had tried to evade economic subjugation to England by setting up an empire of their own.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026
Within months of her 1836 arrival in New York, Ernestine Rose, a Polish-born rabbi’s daughter, began traveling around the United States condemning women’s subjugation, economic inequality, organized religion, and chattel slavery.
From Slate ● Apr. 10, 2025
The skill with which Friedan connects the dots between the subjugation of intelligent, educated women and the ruthless, calculated mind-numbing agenda of consumerism turns out to be her deftest move.
From Salon ● Jan. 5, 2025
Lynds’s achievement—the seemingly total subjugation of a large group of violent inmates—is one that would probably dazzle most correction officers and wardens today.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
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