submissive
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With every merger there’s a dominant and a submissive, an alpha and a beta, a winner and a loser.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
Her rhetoric about being a submissive housewife contrasted with her role as TPUSA’s CEO.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026
She said Adusah was shouting and Charmain was submissive.
From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2026
Judges in places like Massachusetts were customarily paid by appropriation of the colonial legislature, which could withhold or delay payment to judges thought too submissive to British interests.
From Slate ● Feb. 26, 2025
They do not tolerate each other, they do not imprint on humans, and they are not instinctively submissive.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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