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Recent Examples of subservience
And the people certainly don’t owe the president quiet subservience.
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Heidi Stevens, Chicago Tribune, 25 July 2025
California Federal agents denied entry to Dodger Stadium parking lot: Here is what really happened
June 20, 2025
The Dodgers learned what many Trump voters already learned, which is that Agent Orange doesn’t always reward subservience.
—Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2025
Russia has not budged one inch from its demand for total capitulation and subservience from Kyiv, and has only increased its missile barrage on Ukrainian cities.
—Trudy Rubin, Twin Cities, 8 June 2025
In other ways, this passive social robot design aligns with paternalistic standards that link assistance to subservience.
—IEEE Spectrum, 3 June 2025
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Heidi Stevens, Chicago Tribune, 25 July 2025
California Federal agents denied entry to Dodger Stadium parking lot: Here is what really happened
June 20, 2025
The Dodgers learned what many Trump voters already learned, which is that Agent Orange doesn’t always reward subservience.
—Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2025
Russia has not budged one inch from its demand for total capitulation and subservience from Kyiv, and has only increased its missile barrage on Ukrainian cities.
—Trudy Rubin, Twin Cities, 8 June 2025
In other ways, this passive social robot design aligns with paternalistic standards that link assistance to subservience.
—IEEE Spectrum, 3 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for subservience
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All of this amounts to a rounding error for the tech giants—averaged out, YouTube made more than $107 million from ad revenue every single day last quarter—but these are still acts of profound obsequiousness and corporate cowardice.—
Charlie Warzel,
The Atlantic,
1 Oct. 2025
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Trump doesn’t have much to show for his obsequiousness.—
Steven Greenhut,
Oc Register,
12 Sep. 2025
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Would-be autocrats create environments of fear and powerlessness, using intimidation, overwhelming force or political and legal attacks, and other coercive tactics to force acquiescence and chill democratic pushback.—
Shelley Inglis,
The Conversation,
19 Oct. 2025
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Yet, the lesson of the Voting Rights Act is that the response to these setbacks isn’t despair or acquiescence.—
Time,
Time,
12 Sep. 2025
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In Killers of the Flower Moon, his Ernest Burkhart starts off as a mopey, weak-minded World War One veteran, eager to do anything for his godfather uncle (Robert De Niro), but there’s still a certain likability to his dim-bulb submissiveness.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
2 Oct. 2025
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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
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White supremacy is constructed and maintained by Black service work and by the extraction of a social performance of deference.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 Oct. 2025
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Though the recent firings have come under legal scrutiny, and will likely remain paused for the foreseeable future, the Supreme Court has given broad deference to Trump over federal hiring so far in his second term.—
Zachary Schermele,
USA Today,
19 Oct. 2025
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“Subservience.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/subservience. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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