1
as in enslavement
the state of being an enslaved person
a child born into slavery
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2
as in labor
very hard or unpleasant work
endured the slavery of working in the coal mines every day of his adult life
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Recent Examples of slavery
Inflation has made the monetary amounts seem absurdly small—less than $10 to get a dozen fugitives from Philadelphia to Elmira, New York, for instance, in July 1856—but these cash outlays were literally a matter of life and death, or the death-in-life of slavery.
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Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 10 Jan. 2025
Flashback: Much of the present-day American Southwest and West used to be territory under New Spain and later Mexico until the U.S. invaded in 1846 to seek more land for slavery.
—Russell Contreras, Axios, 8 Jan. 2025
Just five years before his departure did the convention finally formally apologize for its history of defending slavery.
—Liam Adams, The Tennessean, 29 Dec. 2024
In Wide Sargasso Sea, Bertha is imagined as a girl originally named Antoinette, raised in Jamaica on a fallow sugar plantation after the abolition of British slavery.
—Ilana Masad, The Atlantic, 3 Jan. 2025
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Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 10 Jan. 2025
Flashback: Much of the present-day American Southwest and West used to be territory under New Spain and later Mexico until the U.S. invaded in 1846 to seek more land for slavery.
—Russell Contreras, Axios, 8 Jan. 2025
Just five years before his departure did the convention finally formally apologize for its history of defending slavery.
—Liam Adams, The Tennessean, 29 Dec. 2024
In Wide Sargasso Sea, Bertha is imagined as a girl originally named Antoinette, raised in Jamaica on a fallow sugar plantation after the abolition of British slavery.
—Ilana Masad, The Atlantic, 3 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for slavery
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The Federal Election Commission states corporations and labor organizations are allowed to make donations to an inaugural committee and contributions are not subject to any limits.—
Molly Bohannon,
Forbes,
9 Jan. 2025
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Automation at the plant, which opened during the pandemic five years ago, has resulted in fewer finger injuries, near total lemon usage (up from 40% when done manually), and saved around 10,000 labor hours per day.—
Francisco Velasquez,
Quartz,
9 Jan. 2025
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And taken alongside the failure of Prop. 6, which would have ended involuntary servitude in prisons, Prop. 36 was taken as a signal that Californians attitudes toward crime are changing.—
Annika Merrilees,
Sacramento Bee,
16 Jan. 2025
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This is part of a national move to ban involuntary servitude in states whose constitutions still indicate the practice is legal.—
Anabel Sosa,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Nov. 2024
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On Friday, state and local officials vowed during a press briefing on the fire that there would be a massive effort to eliminate red tape to accelerate the region’s recovery.—
Tatiana Siegel,
Variety,
11 Jan. 2025
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Other changes focused on reining in meeting disruptions, such as clarifying that speakers can only direct remarks and questions toward board members, not county staff — an effort to prevent abuse of staffers.—
Emily Alvarenga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
11 Jan. 2025
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Her foot literally steps forward atop a broken chain of human bondage.—
The New York Times,
New York Times,
16 Jan. 2025
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His downfall comes only when the titular hero, the Sandman, also known as the Prince of Stories, frees Calliope from bondage.—
Lila Shapiro,
Vulture,
13 Jan. 2025
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That was misery, sorrow, drudgery, give me some other adjectives there.—
Pete Grathoff,
Kansas City Star,
16 Jan. 2025
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Super Cruise will relieve you of the drudgery of long-distance driving and get you there with a lot less stress.—
Brooke Crothers,
Forbes,
29 Dec. 2024
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Learn more about some of the best new discoveries: 4-foot-long predator, kept in captivity for over a decade, discovered as new species In Ethiopia, a 4-foot-long snake known as Broadley’s African house snake was identified as a new species after being kept in captivity for years.—
Stories by Real-Time news team, with AI summarization,
Miami Herald,
17 Jan. 2025
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Amir Levy / Getty Images Seven U.S. citizens remain in Hamas' captivity, with three confirmed to be dead in addition to Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, whose body was recovered last year by Israeli forces.—
Chantal Da Silva,
NBC News,
16 Jan. 2025
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This, in some ways, underlined Watkins’ toils; scoring but more cautious, less sure of himself.—
Jacob Tanswell,
The Athletic,
5 Jan. 2025
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The on-pitch toil from Sean Dyche’s team merited such a response, but now the hard work starts in earnest for all, including TFG.—
Patrick Boyland,
The Athletic,
23 Dec. 2024
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An actor’s reputation can sometimes feel like a heavy yoke; in Gladiator II, Denzel tosses it off and has a blast, taking the audience with him.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
TIME,
22 Nov. 2024
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Inspired by Western heritage, its design features a distinctive yoke, a vertical chest pocket, and two lower side-entry flap pockets, providing both style and practicality.—
Chris Dorsey,
Forbes,
21 Nov. 2024
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“Slavery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slavery. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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