thrall
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Efforts to make it appear that one of the world’s wickedest men would be in thrall to this milky, recessive nonentity are laughable.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026
Thurman benefits the most from spending an entire afternoon in the thrall of her performance.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2025
Among other things, a customer in thrall to a fraudster will sometimes foil their own bank’s attempts to prevent them from sending money to a criminal.
From Salon • Jun. 26, 2025
He is no longer in thrall to policy and personnel choices.
From Slate • Jun. 4, 2025
I was heady with the responsibility of it, fully in her thrall.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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The Tragedy of Macbeth
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"What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" by Frederick Douglass
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