coercive
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“The threat is not limited to superficial damage or coercive signalling but now carries a direct and substantial risk to seafarers,” said Dimitris Maniatis, Marisks’s founder and chief executive.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
In a broad reshuffle of the leadership in recent days, Iran elevated veteran hard-liners to oversee security policy and the state’s coercive institutions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
This may prove to be the coercive factor that finally gives Putin no alternative but to come to the negotiating table and end the war.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 7, 2026
He said it was not clear what would count as coercive behaviour or conversion practices.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
Communal sing-alongs had a faintly coercive quality—that way strangers had of catching each other’s eye as their voices rose—which she was determined to resist.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
Vocabulary lists containing coercive
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