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as in slave
a person who is considered the property of another person
I'm not your thrall, so you'll have to pick up after yourself
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as in slavery
the state of being an enslaved person
a people who still bear the scars of having been in thrall for so many years
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Recent Examples of thrall
Japan’s most famous fortune-teller, Kazuko Hosoki, once held the nation in her thrall.
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Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 27 Jan. 2026
Fastvold’s sweeping vision keeps you in its thrall from the opening title sequence that sends you back to the mid 18th century and into the realm of the Shakers.
—Randy McMullen, Mercury News, 22 Jan. 2026
From the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal to CNN and even Fox News, nearly all the country’s major newsrooms are in the thrall of this vision of politics, devoting untold amounts of energy to technocratic commentary and polling.
—Jason Blakely, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
Even in the 19th century, the novel was considered a dangerous medium, one that would trap people—especially impressionable young women—in the thrall of isolation and fantasy.
—Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 23 Oct. 2025
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Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 27 Jan. 2026
Fastvold’s sweeping vision keeps you in its thrall from the opening title sequence that sends you back to the mid 18th century and into the realm of the Shakers.
—Randy McMullen, Mercury News, 22 Jan. 2026
From the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal to CNN and even Fox News, nearly all the country’s major newsrooms are in the thrall of this vision of politics, devoting untold amounts of energy to technocratic commentary and polling.
—Jason Blakely, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
Even in the 19th century, the novel was considered a dangerous medium, one that would trap people—especially impressionable young women—in the thrall of isolation and fantasy.
—Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 23 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for thrall
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Officials believe this may be the only former slave auction site still in existence in South Carolina.—
Catherine Garcia,
TheWeek,
21 Apr. 2026
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But fear of a robot rebellion, like the fear of slave rebellion before the Civil War, remained.—
Matthew Wills,
JSTOR Daily,
21 Apr. 2026
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So too did the titular Joe Turner, the brother of Tennessee governor Pete Turner and a man responsible for taking prisoners from Memphis to Nashville, but who often sold them into a kind of neo-slavery on cotton plantations along the Mississippi River.—
Chris Jones,
New York Daily News,
26 Apr. 2026
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So too did the titular Joe Turner, the brother of Tennessee Governor Pete Turner and a man responsible for taking prisoners from Memphis to Nashville, but who often sold them into a kind of neo-slavery on cotton plantations along the Mississippi River.—
Chris Jones,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Apr. 2026
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“Thrall.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/thrall. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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