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Noun
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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 -
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
Noun
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Black women frequently overachieve just to receive a fraction of the recognition and are often expected to balance confidence with humility.—
Lyric Christian,
Essence,
27 Feb. 2025
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Luka did not have Dirk’s sense of humor, or a level of humility that endeared him to the world.—
Mac Engel,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
26 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Most disconcerting is the meekness of Washington’s supposedly stalwart European allies.—
Raphael Cohen,
Foreign Affairs,
5 Nov. 2014
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But to see Bass as a kumbaya leader — or to mistake her softness for meekness — is to fundamentally misunderstand her.—
Julia Wick,
Los Angeles Times,
23 June 2024
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
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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
Noun
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Ukraine is unlikely to accept any peace agreement based on the Istanbul negotiations as such terms are effectively a full Ukrainian surrender to Russia's long-term war goals.—
Matt Robison,
Newsweek,
25 Feb. 2025
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But peace can’t be a surrender for the Ukrainians who have not lost on the battlefield, but have courageously under President Volodymyr Zelenskyy held off the Russians for three years of hard fighting.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
18 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Underlying these concerns was a sensation, sometimes expressed in anxious terms, sometimes in acquiescence, that the incoming waves of sprawl could irreversibly wash away the natural landscape and neighborly intimacy that have anchored the city for generations.—
Jaime Moore-Carrillo,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
6 Feb. 2025
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On the one hand, the Captain’s acquiescence to the in-house rules kept YES Network in the loop and provided the Yankees’ RSN with all the soundbites and on-camera appearances that are commensurate with superstar status.—
Anthony Crupi,
Sportico.com,
5 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Is Aspen’s conspicuous wealth worse than Jackson Hole’s false modesty?—
Outside Online,
Outside Online,
18 Dec. 2024
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Vocally, too, Jackman makes a kind of spectacle of his modesty.—
Helen Shaw,
The New Yorker,
31 Jan. 2025
Noun
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The recent examples of capitulation expose the vulnerabilities of a weakened, consolidated and corporatized media industry, where the fates of news organizations are closely tied with other industries that require interaction with the government.—
Ryan Faughnder,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Feb. 2025
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Other Republicans similarly praised Trump, including House Speaker Mike Johnson, who noted that Petro's capitulation included flying Colombians back at his taxpayers' expense.—
Marc Caputo,
Axios,
28 Jan. 2025
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“Subordinateness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/subordinateness. Accessed 2 Mar. 2025.
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