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as in subordinate
very willing to obey someone else
She was an equal partner in the marriage and not a subservient wife.
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as in secondary
having a less important role, job, or place as something else
The employees used to build things by hand but now were subservient to automated equipment that handled much of production.
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Recent Examples of subservient
In her eyes, trad wives are homemakers whose priority is cooking, cleaning and being subservient to men.
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Kimi Robinson, USA TODAY, 1 Aug. 2024
Listen to this article The man leading a conservative plan to remake the American government subservient to Donald Trump stepped down from his position Tuesday.
—Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 30 July 2024
But many white Southerners resisted such efforts, often using terrorism to push their Black neighbors into subservient positions.
—Tore Olsson, The Conversation, 19 July 2024
The incoming president may not be as subservient to Khamenei as Raisi was, but Pezeshkian is unlikely to challenge the supreme leader as much as Khatami and Rouhani.
—Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar, Foreign Affairs, 16 July 2024
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Kimi Robinson, USA TODAY, 1 Aug. 2024
Listen to this article The man leading a conservative plan to remake the American government subservient to Donald Trump stepped down from his position Tuesday.
—Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 30 July 2024
But many white Southerners resisted such efforts, often using terrorism to push their Black neighbors into subservient positions.
—Tore Olsson, The Conversation, 19 July 2024
The incoming president may not be as subservient to Khamenei as Raisi was, but Pezeshkian is unlikely to challenge the supreme leader as much as Khatami and Rouhani.
—Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar, Foreign Affairs, 16 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for subservient
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The president, in other words, is increasingly subordinate to the courts.Ian Millhiser, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
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This subordinate specification could allow regulators to implement auditing capabilities world-wide.James Felton Keith, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
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But few buyers are making desktop gaming a primary or even secondary reason for buying any Mac.PCMAG, PCMAG, 7 Nov. 2024
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The bond, which would be funded through a secondary property tax, would help the city with projects such as a $97 million new public safety headquarters and a new $30 million training facility for public safety personnel.Shawn Raymundo, The Arizona Republic, 5 Nov. 2024
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Feeding into Milioti’s volatile performance, her costumes chart a journey from obedient heiress to homicidal mob boss, culminating in her violent retribution against Oz in the show’s penultimate episode.Gavia Baker-Whitelaw, Vulture, 4 Nov. 2024
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Even so, our exercises did not suggest that any authoritarian would command a uniformly obedient federal workforce.Barton Gellman, Washington Post, 30 July 2024
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With such a passive approach from the federal government, Russian interference in the U.S. political system and American culture is an inevitability.Colin P. Clarke, The Mercury News, 12 Nov. 2024
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The fund operates as a passive investment vehicle, with its shares reflecting the performance of gold bullion prices.Quartz Bot, Quartz, 12 Nov. 2024
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“Subservient.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/subservient. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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