browbeating
Example Sentences
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The question is whether the party now meekly succumbs to the browbeating:
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 14, 2026
She often used a combination of charm and intense browbeating to convince the most reluctant members of the community to speak out in print or on TV.
From BBC • May 18, 2024
Representatives for the writers described it as a “lecture” and a browbeating session in which they were pressured to accept an Aug. 11 proposal from the AMPTP.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 24, 2023
One of the uglier early nomination hearings, Wittes reminds us, was the browbeating meted out to Thurgood Marshall in 1967 by such Southern segregationists as Strom Thurmond and Sam J. Ervin Jr.
From Washington Post • Mar. 29, 2022
Now he was stuck in the middle of an increasingly acrimonious debate between the browbeating Lawrence and the bedridden Compton.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
