subservience
Example Sentences
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It helped undo the damage done by the subservience in “I Dream of Jeannie.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 2, 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
But what Raisi lacked in charisma, he more than made up for in subservience; the man, frankly, was a toady doing the supreme leader’s bidding.
From Seattle Times • May 24, 2024
Feminists have spent the past 150 years painstakingly chipping away at the laws that forced our subservience.
From Slate • Apr. 17, 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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