subjugation
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And could other advanced, independent civilizations have also flourished within China’s current borders before their subjugation?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
Koreans began immigrating to Los Angeles in the early 1900s as Korea lost independence to Japan, with a formal subjugation in 1910.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2025
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
"It must be a policy of the United States," President Harry Truman announced, "to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressure."
From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2025
It was mournful, indeed, to witness the subjugation of that vigorous spirit to a corporeal infirmity.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
Vocabulary lists containing subjugation
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"Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death" by Patrick Henry (1775)
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