subjugation
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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
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
He is strongly critical of what he sees as the official “instrumentalisation” of the 1954-1962 war of independence against France; and of what he sees as the continuing subjugation of women in Algerian society.
From BBC • Nov. 5, 2024
Massasoit’s people were not only beset by loss, they were in danger of subjugation.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
Vocabulary lists containing subjugation
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"Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death" by Patrick Henry (1775)
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