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The release is part of an agreement with 9/11 Health Watch, a victims' advocacy group that had taken legal action to compel the city to make the documents public.

From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026

He instructed Southern postmasters to record and publicize the names of even individual subscribers to abolitionist newspapers to encourage intimidation by their neighbors and perhaps even compel them to leave the South.

From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2026

The order could govern federal usage; it could not compel Canada or the rest of the world to play along.

From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2026

But most of all, they compel their audiences to think and feel.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

“Neither sleet nor rain nor a half inch of snow will compel me to dress like a lumberjack.”

From "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman

Jaques posited that middle age compels people to lean in to “the tragic, reflective and philosophical.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026

"It compels us to preserve this property, to protect it, to cherish it even more, and to promote its value," he added.

From Barron's ● Jul. 26, 2026

A subpoena compels a party to release specified internal documents or information.

From BBC ● May 27, 2026

It is, as yet, a dud — a $2,000 slot machine that pays out a Community Note dressed as a verdict, in a process that compels nothing and binds no one.

From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2026

Here it is to be noted that a prince must avoid ever joining forces with one more powerful than himself to injure others, unless necessity compels you, as was mentioned above.

From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli

Once they started shooting, Fielder said he and Oppenheim were compelled by details they couldn’t interpret.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Still, he’s compelled to say something every so often and each time we want to scream that he’s wasting his precious oxygen.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

Victimized museums are often compelled to cope by closing indefinitely or reopening with fewer treasures on view.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

Her floral, flowing clothes and romantic aesthetic are not things she feels compelled to shed in order to be taken seriously as a chef.

From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026

A strange sense of duty, not to mention a powerful curiosity, compelled him to join.

From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart

But the exhibition’s organizing principle makes for an equally compelling reason.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026

Nevertheless, the results provide compelling evidence that unconsciousness does not necessarily mean the brain has stopped performing sophisticated information processing.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026

"We're going all in here. We believe that the evidence is substantial and compelling and warrants the respondent's removal from office," he added.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026

As his latest book ‘The Radiance’ blurs the lines between memory and invention, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author makes a compelling case for why literature remains our richest record of human consciousness.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

Her own nanites would heal it by morning, and besides, there was something compelling about the discomfort.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman