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heteronomy

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as in subjection

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Recent Examples of heteronomy For this reason, the passage from Arab spring to Arab winter should be understood first and foremost as a narrative of self-determination, choice, and consequences, not as a story of heteronomy and external imposition. — New York Times, 12 May 2020

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The Handmaid's Tale spared no sensitivities when diving into the cruelest treatment people like June, and even Lydia, experience at the hands of a totalitarian system bent on the total subjection of women.

— Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 8 Apr. 2026
As the man brawls with his in-laws, the boy is caught between two worlds, of male rage and female subjection.

— Richard Brody, New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2026

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Even Ursula Le Guin’s Anarres, which is haunted by the shadow of unfreedom.

— Carline Tromp, The Dial, 18 Aug. 2026
These ideas—of ceding ground, of viewing another as infinite rather than as a means to address our own unfreedom—are of no use to the industries and technologies that treat the face as a display commodity before all else.

— Jia Tolentino, New Yorker, 11 July 2026

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And every fraction of warming prevented now keeps mothers and children safer tomorrow, which means ending our dependence on fossil fuels, fast.

— Catarina Rolfsdotter-Jansson, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2026
Greater domestic production could also reduce US dependence on overseas suppliers for advanced battery materials.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 21 Aug. 2026

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