subjugation
Example Sentences
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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
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
The 14th and 15th Amendments were ratified to establish an enduring multiracial democracy, explicitly empowering Congress to end the subjugation of nonwhite Americans.
From Slate • Oct. 15, 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
People of color, because of the history of racial subjugation and exclusion, often experience success and failure vicariously through the few who achieve positions of power, fame, and fortune.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
