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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of subjugate.

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Examples

  • “Human subjugates, that is,” he added, mistaking her startled expression for confusion.

    Clockwork Angel Cassandra Clare 2010

  • Though I readily admit physical gender and sexuality are two distinct (if related) concepts, I think the impetus of parents and societies at large to advertise genders in infancy indicates our eagerness to assign "normal" gender roles, which is generally limited to patriarchal heterosexual behavior that inevitably subjugates homosexuals and women.

    Tove Hermanson: Age and Gender Appropriate Fashion Tove Hermanson 2010

  • Though I readily admit physical gender and sexuality are two distinct (if related) concepts, I think the impetus of parents and societies at large to advertise genders in infancy indicates our eagerness to assign "normal" gender roles, which is generally limited to patriarchal heterosexual behavior that inevitably subjugates homosexuals and women.

    Tove Hermanson: Age and Gender Appropriate Fashion Tove Hermanson 2010

  • Though I readily admit physical gender and sexuality are two distinct (if related) concepts, I think the impetus of parents and societies at large to advertise genders in infancy indicates our eagerness to assign "normal" gender roles, which is generally limited to patriarchal heterosexual behavior that inevitably subjugates homosexuals and women.

    Tove Hermanson: Age and Gender Appropriate Fashion Tove Hermanson 2010

  • Though I readily admit physical gender and sexuality are two distinct (if related) concepts, I think the impetus of parents and societies at large to advertise genders in infancy indicates our eagerness to assign "normal" gender roles, which is generally limited to patriarchal heterosexual behavior that inevitably subjugates homosexuals and women.

    Tove Hermanson: Age and Gender Appropriate Fashion Tove Hermanson 2010

  • Though I readily admit physical gender and sexuality are two distinct (if related) concepts, I think the impetus of parents and societies at large to advertise genders in infancy indicates our eagerness to assign "normal" gender roles, which is generally limited to patriarchal heterosexual behavior that inevitably subjugates homosexuals and women.

    Tove Hermanson: Age and Gender Appropriate Fashion Tove Hermanson 2010

  • So: Will Pakistan, beset by internal contradictions that never befell 19th-century America, gradually disintegrate before it subjugates the Baluch?

    Pakistan’s Fatal Shore 2009

  • This causes underprivileged students to do poorly on their standardized tests and thus subjugates them to failed, impoverished lives as adults.

    Archive 2010-02-01 Olga Bonfiglio 2010

  • So: Will Pakistan, beset by internal contradictions that never befell 19th-century America, gradually disintegrate before it subjugates the Baluch?

    Pakistan’s Fatal Shore 2009

  • Though I readily admit physical gender and sexuality are two distinct (if related) concepts, I think the impetus of parents and societies at large to advertise genders in infancy indicates our eagerness to assign "normal" gender roles, which is generally limited to patriarchal heterosexual behavior that inevitably subjugates homosexuals and women.

    Tove Hermanson: Age and Gender Appropriate Fashion Tove Hermanson 2010

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