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coercively



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When challenged whether he was coercively controlling couriers for his own ends, he said: "No, it's more of a bartering system. They want something and I want something. It goes hand in hand."

From BBC Jul. 8, 2026

They arise when coercively monolithic social forms come under new pressures that weaken and subvert them.

From Salon Sep. 9, 2023

Some of the rules could be used coercively, Christophe Deloire, the Reporters Without Borders secretary general, said in the statement.

From New York Times Sep. 23, 2021

It is all assisted by the coercively sinister score by Mica Levi.

From The Guardian Oct. 27, 2019

And thereupon they were ready to reflect the same things that dissenters had very reasonably objected upon the national churches, that have coercively pressed conformity to their respective creeds and worships. 

From A Brief Account of the Rise and Progress of the People Called Quakers by William Penn




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