coerced
Example Sentences
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The patients I know who contributed to the hospital to “honor” their doctor were certainly not coerced.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 2, 2026
His conviction relied on a coerced confession, he told Rebin Rahmani of the Kurdistan Human Rights Network, a nonprofit group based in Paris, in a phone call that Rahmani recorded.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 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
The judges found Tarrant's guilty pleas were voluntary and "he was not coerced or pressured in any way to plead guilty".
From Barron's ● Apr. 30, 2026
Week after week, aided or coerced by their parents, they came, and week after week Milton Stephanides excused himself to go up to his bedroom and play his clarinet out the window.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
