compulsion
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"Compulsion" follows the journey of "The Diary of Anne Frank"
From Washington Post • Feb. 8, 2022
He then appeared in Broadway stage productions such as Compulsion, later reprising his role in the screen adaptation of the same name.
From BBC • Nov. 9, 2021
I reread Compulsion by Meyer Levin, his novel of the Leopold and Loeb killings in Chicago in 1924.
From The Guardian • May 18, 2019
Dr. David Greenfield, a University of Connecticut psychiatry professor and founder of the Center for Internet and Technology Addiction developed a Smartphone Compulsion Test to help determine if phone use is problematic.
From New York Times • May 2, 2017
Compulsion was also used at the time of the Reformation, to uphold the Protestant faith and keep people in the right way.
From Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 3, May 1906 Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature by Goldman, Emma
Vocabulary lists containing compulsion
"The Landlady" by Roald Dahl
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"The Great Gatsby," Chapter 1 Vocabulary
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