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Jones' letter comes months after Met Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley urged the government to compel all phone companies to make stolen devices "unusable bricks".

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

Krishnan plans to introduce legislation to compel the department to assess the proposal.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 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 lawsuit seeks to compel the Discord platform to adopt effective measures to protect children, adolescents, and women in the digital environment," said the statement.

From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026

He hesitated then said, “You make him feel better, ease his woe and all that...but could you compel him to do something? Maybe make him forget his wife?”

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo

But the luminous interior, designed by a man of such profound piety that he was known as “God’s architect,” compels awe even in those devoid of religious belief.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

It’s not just their goony sense of humor that compels them to make silly intro videos and do funny accents.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026

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

From BBC ● May 27, 2026

The written word compels you to think and a heightened conscience is one of the essential elements required to bring about change.

From Barron's ● May 21, 2026

We stick close to the walls as we approach, but the frenzy from the blackout compels the guards to rush from their posts to secure the Mess and the Hub.

From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed

All her life, Beatty said, she has felt compelled to stand up for her rights, especially as a woman of color.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026

You may sense what I’m talking about whenever you’re compelled to answer the “ba-dee-ya” call in Earth Wind & Fire’s “September.”

From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026

In a horror movie pastiche, Mendoza is dogged by middle-aged white men compelled to tell him that their wife is Asian, which does sound like something from personal experience.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026

For some, this may conflict with the image they feel compelled to maintain as parents, as strong people who can protect those they love.

From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2026

He resolved that to preserve his credibility as supervising architect, a role in which he would be compelled to oversee the work of other exposition architects, he would not himself design any of the buildings.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

I think it’s a really compelling film and I’m just proud to be a very, very small part of it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

These distinctive structures form under the intense pressures produced during an impact and provided compelling evidence that the feature was not volcanic after all.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026

She had a compelling biography, as someone raised by a single mother who rose to graduate from Harvard Law School.

From Slate ● Sep. 21, 2026

The artificial-intelligence spending cycle is still early, according to UBS analysts — and that affords investors a number of compelling opportunities across the technology, media and telecommunications sectors.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026

The fact that the source of this expression predates Newton and was picked up by him for his own purposes only reinforces Faulkner’s compelling argument.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin