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coerce
verb as in compel, press
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His supporters say that in the days following his arrest in Jalandhar, he was tortured and coerced into signing a false confession to participation in the killings.
Australian girls are being hunted by online crime networks and coerced into acts of violence - against themselves, their siblings or pets - in a "twisted type of gamification", police have warned.
During the year of abuse Davies also encouraged or coerced his victim into filming herself committing acts of self-harm and bought her razors to facilitate this.
Mr. Martins has claimed that Justice de Moraes needed a reason to keep him behind bars because the justice was trying to coerce a confession about the alleged Bolsonaro plot.
The Chinese are also seeking to coerce other countries to stop cooperating with U.S. export controls.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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