coerce
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"The approach now is to try and befriend people, rather than coerce them."
From BBC • May 20, 2026
He also believed they had tried to coerce him, and decided they should have to answer for it publicly.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 1, 2026
It’s the exact opposite of what you truly want, but your husband has allowed his brother and sister-in-law to coerce and/or guilt-trip your husband into an unwelcome financial arrangement.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 21, 2026
The same month Iraq's embassy in Moscow warned of "attempts to lure or coerce some Iraqis residing in Russia or abroad into joining the war under various pretexts".
From Barron's • Nov. 5, 2025
For it purported to create a consolidated federal government with powers sufficient to coerce obedience to national laws—in effect, to discipline a truly continental union—while remaining true to the republican principles of 1776.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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