INDENTURED Synonyms: 30 Similar and Opposite Words

indentured

adjective

Definition of indentured

as in enslaved

required by a contract to work for a certain period of time immigrants who came to the U.S. as indentured servants 200 years ago

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Historian Jennifer Morgan similarly contends that enslaved women’s reproductive capacities were essential for the economic logic of hereditary racial slavery.

— Kari Traylor, JSTOR Daily, 29 July 2026
While standing at the case, visitors can hear the audio of the speech where Douglass criticizes Americans celebrating freedom while millions remain enslaved.

— Kaitlyn Harvey, AJC.com, 23 July 2026

Definition of enslaved

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The new version of Hannibal starred Mads Mikkelsen as a pre-imprisoned Hannibal Lecter, forging a relationship with Hugh Dancy’s Will Graham.

— Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026
Fujimori, the daughter of a disgraced former president, and Sánchez, an ally of an imprisoned ex-president, beat 33 other candidates in the initial vote in April, but neither earned even 20% of support.

— ABC News, ABC News, 9 June 2026

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The present-day framing takes place on the island where an exhausted Odysseus (Matt Damon) washed up 10 years after the Battle of Troy, and is now held captive by the nymph Calypso (Charlize Theron).

— The Week UK, TheWeek, 23 July 2026
By the time the film gets back to the subject of wolves, von Carolsfeld has abruptly stopped framing her captive humans as wildlife.

— Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 22 July 2026

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