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to take control of and assert authority over
—usually used as (be) enslaved
Her ancestors were enslaved during the war.
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Doug Melville, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
The most precious underwater find is a blue bead, once used as currency to pay for enslaved people from Africa, tobacco, cotton and rum.
—Alev Aktar, Robb Report, 29 Oct. 2024
The host then played a clip of Hinchcliffe’s material from the Tom Brady roast a few months ago, which included material about Jewish folks and enslaved people.
—Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 28 Oct. 2024
After a bitter and bloody struggle, the central government prevailed and Lincoln freed the enslaved people, but he was assassinated a month after starting his second term.
—Carl Leubsdorf, The Mercury News, 25 Oct. 2024
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In 1787, the Three-Fifths Compromise was proposed at the Constitutional Convention, to count enslaved people in the South as three-fifths of a white person for purposes of taxation and representation in the House of Representatives and Electoral College.
—Doug Melville, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
The most precious underwater find is a blue bead, once used as currency to pay for enslaved people from Africa, tobacco, cotton and rum.
—Alev Aktar, Robb Report, 29 Oct. 2024
The host then played a clip of Hinchcliffe’s material from the Tom Brady roast a few months ago, which included material about Jewish folks and enslaved people.
—Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 28 Oct. 2024
After a bitter and bloody struggle, the central government prevailed and Lincoln freed the enslaved people, but he was assassinated a month after starting his second term.
—Carl Leubsdorf, The Mercury News, 25 Oct. 2024
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The young man probably arrived from England in the 1630s as a cabin boy or an indentured servant.Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Dec. 2023
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Both the levelers among the founders and their critics agreed on where the wealth necessary for the new nation would come from: the expropriation of Native Americans, as well as from slave and indentured labor.Danielle Allen, Foreign Affairs, 14 Dec. 2015
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In a second, two civilians used as human shields sit bound and blindfolded.Mick Krever, CNN, 24 Oct. 2024
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Did the bound children merely refer to the killing of the firstborn, part of the story of Passover, and did the drops of blood allude to the red wine dribbled by seder participants onto the plate to indicate their sorrow at Egyptian suffering?Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 5 Oct. 2024
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In such confined, awkward sites, devised to hold a five-story house, what was important to him?David Netto, Curbed, 17 Oct. 2024
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Hydrothermal explosions occur when hot water in a volcano system turns into steam in a confined area, Morgan wrote.Julia Gomez, USA TODAY, 25 July 2024
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Venom and a host of other symbiotes held captive at Area 51 manage to stop Knull’s army of monstrous alien Xenophages from acquiring the Codex.Richard Newby, Vulture, 25 Oct. 2024
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New ceasefire push The escalation came as the United States pushed for a new effort to reach a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, that would end the war and see the release of Israeli and foreign hostages held captive in Gaza as well as many Palestinians jailed by Israel.Nidal al-Mughrabi, USA TODAY, 25 Oct. 2024
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Back in 2012, the two starred in The Paperboy, in which Efron’s wide-eyed character falls for an older woman (Kidman) who is in love with an incarcerated murderer.Andrea Mandell, Peoplemag, 27 June 2024
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Investigators later said the driver was unaware of the scam call that Brock had received with threats and demands for money, citing an incarcerated relative.Mark Scolforo, Fortune, 20 Apr. 2024
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“Enslaved.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/enslaved. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.
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