subservience
Example Sentences
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The utter subservience of American pop culture to baby boomers over the past 50-odd years has engendered justifiable resentment among members of the subsequent alphabet generations.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2025
Maybe divine intervention wouldn’t be such a bad thing if utter subservience to billionaires, technology and manufactured loneliness is the alternative.
From Salon • Dec. 21, 2025
More and more women have been given a choice about how many children they will bear and that has opened up avenues to different lives, less confined to motherhood and economic subservience to men.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 5, 2024
Feminists have spent the past 150 years painstakingly chipping away at the laws that forced our subservience.
From Slate • Apr. 17, 2024
I could not make subservience an automatic part of my behavior.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
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Black Boy
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