coerce

Vullo, in which the court held that the government cannot use informal tactics, like thinly-veiled threats of selective enforcement or demands for cooperation, to coerce private actors.

From Salon ● Jul. 10, 2026

It would be just as unethical for a therapist to use treatment to pressure someone into being LGBTQ+ as it is to use treatment to coerce someone out of being such an identity.

From Slate ● Mar. 11, 2026

But the option, one of several the White House has been debating to coerce Tehran to reach a deal restricting its nuclear program, faces many obstacles, some of the officials said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 10, 2026

In July, another escapee, 24-year-old Laura Avtorkhanova, was found in a shelter in Georgia by a group of male relatives who reportedly tried to coerce her into returning to Russia.

From BBC ● Nov. 22, 2025

If he put his mind to it, he could coerce away the whole letter on some pretext of giving it to the police, having the typing analyzed, who knew what he might come up with?

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

“We’re both familiar with what can happen and what has happened, when the state coerces people and restricts fundamental human rights, on a very personal level,” Howald said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2025

Regulators also say Amazon coerces sellers into signing up for FBA in order to reach customers on the Amazon store.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 9, 2023

Lawsuits also say the program unconstitutionally coerces drugmakers into selling their products at inadequate prices.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 30, 2023

Just do not be surprised when your sister-in-law ignores any handwritten invitations and coerces you into sending text reminders anyway.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 24, 2023

He avoids the ballroom entirely, save for a single waltz when Tsukiko coerces him onto the dance floor.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

The patients I know who contributed to the hospital to “honor” their doctor were certainly not coerced.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 2, 2026

It found there was no single perpetrator of the practice in Britain, but "government decisions shaped the environment in which unmarried mothers were often shamed and coerced into having their children put up for adoption".

From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026

What will change is that Americans will no longer be coerced into sacrificing their First Amendment rights.

From Barron's ● Jun. 3, 2026

Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee, China is known to have “conducted coerced repatriations of economic fugitives from the U.K. and kidnapping of dual nationals overseas.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026

“Nine! Please don’t blame her. It was my fault. I… I coerced it out of her,” Clare said, but he was a terrible liar even at his best.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

"The observers do not allege any verbal instruction or physical conduct that indicated one person was directing or coercing another regarding how to vote."

From BBC ● Mar. 27, 2026

What they’re actually doing is coercing all the members of an industry cartel into raising their prices in lockstep.

From Slate ● Oct. 13, 2025

A sports coach at a Taiwanese university has issued a formal apology over a research project that allegedly involved her coercing students into giving blood, according to local media.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2025

In the current situation, “the legal argument for broadly coercing a state into doing what you want isn’t really different,” Boushey said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2025

The gradual centring of public interest, however—that mysterious movement which, defying analysis, gathers force as it proceeds, and ends by coercing the most indifferent—had already modified her attitude towards this forthcoming event.

From Anna of the Five Towns by Bennett, Arnold