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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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McRae stands alone as a pop allegiant, one with deference to the artists that came before her and a proclivity for their brand of spectacle.—
Steven J. Horowitz,
Variety,
21 Feb. 2025
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Among those who have raised concern about Trump’s leverage over Adams were four of his deputy mayors, who submitted their resignations earlier this week due to their unease about his deference to the president, according to sources.—
Chris Sommerfeldt,
New York Daily News,
20 Feb. 2025
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Whether the current American president has become a king, particularly after the sweeping grant of immunity in 2024 by the Supreme Court and the seeming acquiescence by Congress to Trump’s latest directives, remains up for debate.—
Claire B. Wofford,
The Conversation,
25 Feb. 2025
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Empowered by this legislative acquiescence, Trump has now decided to put a freeze on all federal aid that does not fit with his agenda.—
Jonathan Granoff,
Newsweek,
29 Jan. 2025
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“Obsequiousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/obsequiousness. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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