as in slavery
the state of being an enslaved person
people freed from bondage
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Recent Examples of bondage
The main performance is scheduled to include aerial acrobatics, bondage, burlesque and drag performers from groups such as The Dragonettes, AKArts Collective and others with hypnotic live looping and vocal music from Morgan Sorne.
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Anne Schrager, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Feb. 2026
By smashing together heavy atoms of lead traveling at near-light speeds using the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), scientists can create a high-energy environment that briefly frees gluons and quarks from this atomic bondage, recreating the quark-gluon plasma of the early universe.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 30 Jan. 2026
Where there was once bondage, there is now liberation.
—Essence, 7 Jan. 2026
Women often totter along a delicate line between beauty and torture, femininity and the bondage of expectation.
—Jane Wooldridge, Miami Herald, 7 Dec. 2025
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Anne Schrager, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Feb. 2026
By smashing together heavy atoms of lead traveling at near-light speeds using the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), scientists can create a high-energy environment that briefly frees gluons and quarks from this atomic bondage, recreating the quark-gluon plasma of the early universe.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 30 Jan. 2026
Where there was once bondage, there is now liberation.
—Essence, 7 Jan. 2026
Women often totter along a delicate line between beauty and torture, femininity and the bondage of expectation.
—Jane Wooldridge, Miami Herald, 7 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bondage
slavery
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Politico had recently published text messages leaked from a Young Republicans group chat that contained quips about Hitler, gas chambers, slavery, and rape.—
Antonia Hitchens,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
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Tarver, who is Black, took exception to Arena comparing tipped wages to slavery, a comparison that Johnson, who is also Black, has also made in the past.—
Jeremy Gorner,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Apr. 2026
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“Bondage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bondage. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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