as in slavery
the state of being an enslaved person
people freed from bondage
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As a result, many enslaved persons remained in bondage until the state ratified the Thirteenth Amendment in January 1866.
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Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
January 15, 2021: More screenshots start proliferating online — this time, screenshots from Hammer’s secondary Instagram account, including several photos and videos of women in bondage.
—Lydia Wang, Vulture, 2 Jan. 2025
New York City itself housed one of the largest urban slave populations in North America: Around four in ten households in the city held people in bondage as domestic servants, carriage drivers, laundresses and dock workers.
—Carolyn Eastman, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Sep. 2024
Pavlovich’s allegations, like others against Gaiman, often involve acts associated with BDSM (bondage, domination, sadism, and masochism).
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 13 Jan. 2025
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Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
January 15, 2021: More screenshots start proliferating online — this time, screenshots from Hammer’s secondary Instagram account, including several photos and videos of women in bondage.
—Lydia Wang, Vulture, 2 Jan. 2025
New York City itself housed one of the largest urban slave populations in North America: Around four in ten households in the city held people in bondage as domestic servants, carriage drivers, laundresses and dock workers.
—Carolyn Eastman, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Sep. 2024
Pavlovich’s allegations, like others against Gaiman, often involve acts associated with BDSM (bondage, domination, sadism, and masochism).
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 13 Jan. 2025
See All Example Sentences for bondage
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“Bondage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bondage. Accessed 23 Mar. 2025.
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