coerce

The renewed American campaign to block Iran’s oil shipments has set up a contest in which both Washington and Tehran are attempting to use economic pressure to coerce the other.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

A fast, he insisted, was not blackmail but an act of suffering intended to awaken rather than coerce.

From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2026

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

District Court Judge Patrick Schiltz quashed the “unlawful” subpoenas, ruling that “overwhelming evidence” suggested they “were not issued to investigate, but to harass, coerce, and retaliate.”

From Slate ● Jun. 22, 2026

In this very weak sense, of course, mathematics is constraining, as is all reality, but it has no independent power to coerce.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos

“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

On top of that, Amazon coerces those third party sellers into signing up for Amazon’s own fulfillment and advertising services — leading to increased costs that then get passed on to customers, the FTC argues.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 2, 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

She slips away, and I grit my teeth as Grandfather coerces me into a stilted discussion with the governor.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir

The scandal saw the mothers, including many who were teenagers, coerced into giving up their children, with social, institutional and family pressures used to persuade them that adoption was their only option.

From Barron's ● Jul. 2, 2026

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

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

He believes these people to be in the majority in Germany at the present time but feels they are coerced into following Hitler's methods and program.

From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple

I wonder what he thinks might motivate people to serve, instead of coercing them, and he mentions raising salaries.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

“Detaining people and not giving them the chance to get out of detention is a way of coercing people to give up their claims.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 19, 2026

At times “strategic ambiguity” can be a useful tool for coercing foes to act in certain ways or even to step down from power.

From Slate ● Dec. 11, 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

He denounced President Buchanan's distinction between "coercing a State" and "compelling the citizens of the State to obey the laws of the United States" as a "transparent sophistry."

From The Struggle for Missouri by McElroy, John