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
Social media’s entire “tradwife” genre is about professional content creators pretending to be submissive housewives to sell advertising.
From Salon ● Oct. 6, 2025
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
The character’s influence lies in her ability to observe and to be “totally alert” to everything happening around her during the conclave, but not in a submissive way.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2024
I couldn’t afford to be submissive anymore, not with Otto unprotected.
From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer
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