subservience
Example Sentences
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It also just seems so weird, because it’s all about showing subservience, or showing that you have some loyalty.
From Slate • Mar. 4, 2026
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
If anything, her role as a path-breaker created expectations that far exceeded the inherent subservience of her vice presidential position.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 6, 2024
Women exchanged the maids’ uniforms of subservience for the white chadors of emancipation.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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