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All corporations should have the responsibility to ensure their products and the components of those products are not manufactured in slavelike conditions.

From Washington Post • Nov. 26, 2020

He recounts the controversies surrounding the slavelike working conditions at overseas contract factories, but has little to say about the industry’s environmental impact.

From New York Times • Jul. 5, 2018

I took this to mean that she worked under slavelike conditions.

From New York Times • Feb. 8, 2017

The admiration of fools they love, and the praise of a slavelike people, but they would sooner be hated by mankind than be ignored and forgotten as is their due.

From Tales of War by Dunsany, Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Baron

Odysseus, on the other hand, cannot help but behave treacherously, for in Sophokles's account it is in his base, "slavelike" nature to do so.

From Philoktetes by McNamee, Gregory