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Recent Examples of subservience
And, in a development that has been decades in the making, civil-rights laws have been reduced to cudgels for coercing universities into subservience.
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Jeannie Suk Gersen, New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2025
Trump and Vance demand absolute loyalty and subservience – as seen in their interactions with Zelensky.
—Greg Orme, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
Trad wives are typically conservative, usually Christians and post about things like cooking, cleaning and subservience to their husbands.
—Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 27 Feb. 2025
Virtually overnight, the new gender apartheid state rolled back laws and opportunities that had for decades already lifted Iranian women up from the subservience clerics demanded.
—Mariam Memarsadeghi, Newsweek, 13 Jan. 2025
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Jeannie Suk Gersen, New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2025
Trump and Vance demand absolute loyalty and subservience – as seen in their interactions with Zelensky.
—Greg Orme, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
Trad wives are typically conservative, usually Christians and post about things like cooking, cleaning and subservience to their husbands.
—Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 27 Feb. 2025
Virtually overnight, the new gender apartheid state rolled back laws and opportunities that had for decades already lifted Iranian women up from the subservience clerics demanded.
—Mariam Memarsadeghi, Newsweek, 13 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for subservience
Noun
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Too many have chosen the politics of non-engagement, which is at best a hair’s breadth away from acquiescence or complicity.—
Kamila Shamsie
June 20,
Literary Hub,
20 June 2025
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This long history of the expansion of executive power, often with the acquiescence of the courts, to violate and restrict civil liberties in the name of national security has ultimately brought us to our current situation.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
9 June 2025
Noun
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Yet electing to be private doesn’t amount to complaisance or complicity.—
Lesley M.M. Blume,
Town & Country,
6 Dec. 2022
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Sammy’s awareness of his mother’s infidelity, his father’s complaisance, and how both were relieved by his creative Boy Scout merit-badge projects and fantasies requires a separate article.—
Armond White,
National Review,
16 Nov. 2022
Noun
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Does being a girl’s girl mean forfeiting your shot at love in deference to a friend’s indecision?—
Lizzie Hyman,
People.com,
3 July 2025
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When Sexton took to the Tennessee House floor in April 2014, his colleagues showed him deference because of his banking experience, said former Rep. Craig Fitzhugh, a rural West Tennessee Democrat and the minority leader at the time, who sponsored the original payday lending legislation in 1997.—
Adam Friedman,
ProPublica,
26 June 2025
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“Subservience.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/subservience. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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