coerce
Example Sentences
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It is manufactured scarcity designed to coerce consumers into a single brokerage’s ecosystem.
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.
Johnson added that he needed further clarity about safeguards to ensure medics were satisfied that patients understood the decision they were making, and were not being coerced by anyone else.
From BBC
But not since 1903, the year Theodore Roosevelt coerced Colombia to relinquish what became the Panama Canal, has a U.S. president forced a foreign government to give Washington significant land.
Sure enough, the Taliban launched Chinese-made rockets at the base after dark, planted there, we were told, by farmers who had been either bribed or coerced into doing so.
From BBC
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