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Noun
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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 -
His is the first whose subservience to the prevailing darkness feels like a depressing surrender of identity.—
Wesley Morris,
New York Times,
25 Dec. 2024
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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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That shaky hold over the chamber soured hopes that there would be a quick acquiescence to putting in place a Leadership team that had the support from Trump.—
Philip Elliott,
TIME,
3 Jan. 2025
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In fact, the public acquiescence of senior officials throughout the process reaffirmed Russia’s authoritarian hierarchy and Putin’s place at its apex.—
Julian G. Waller,
Foreign Affairs,
14 Aug. 2024
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“Subserviency.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/subserviency. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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