be subjected to

Example Sentences

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With this decision, the leaders and anyone associated with them can quickly be subjected to sanctions by the US Treasury Department.

From Barron's • May 29, 2026

There have been some suggestions for regulation already, but here’s mine: AI personalities and their owners should be subjected to fiduciary duty when they interact with users.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 3, 2026

Again, not a word about the coercive therapeutic context in which vulnerable minors will be subjected to those “ideas” and pressed to implement them.

From Slate • Apr. 3, 2026

There are calls for MI5 to be subjected to increased scrutiny and be held more accountable under the law.

From BBC • Dec. 9, 2025

She was hard as iron, saying that her nuptial chamber should not be subjected to the stench of the sea-bottom that accompanied this penniless wretch.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson