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A fellow justice also accused McCaffery of attempting to coerce him into opposing Castille.

Once again Russia brandishes the threat of a gas cutoff to squeeze Kiev and coerce Europe.

Alito opened the door by questioning the “anomalous” Abood precedent, which lets states coerce union members into paying dues.

In other instances, CIA recruiters used thinly veiled threats to coerce their cooperation.

Religious liberty, Jefferson argued, denies the majority any right to coerce a dissenting minority, even one hostile to religion.

This Constitution does not attempt to coerce sovereign bodies, States, in their political capacity.

It guides, it need not coerce or necessitate, though it may.

To coerce them into a reluctant self-denial could be no possible object to him either of wish or hope.

Hopeless to search further among empty swamps and forests, to grope at large in this hushed wilderness, to coerce a jungle.

Hume, though we have found him censuring the conduct of Franklin, was opposed to any attempt to coerce America.

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On this page you'll find 85 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to coerce, such as: browbeat, bully, intimidate, repress, strong-arm, and suppress.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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