domineer
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He could dominate and domineer musicians in a recording studio, once upon a time, but he couldn’t charm 12 people on a 2007 jury into believing his story.
From Time • Mar. 21, 2013
It goes to the head like wine, and you find attempts made outside journalism to dictate, to domineer to blackmail.
From Time Magazine Archive
The pride of man makes him love to domineer, and nothing mortifies him to much as to be obliged to condescend to persuade his inferiors.
From An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Garnier, Germain
It does not domineer over the President himself, but it makes the Secretaries its humble servants.
From Congressional Government A Study in American Politics by Wilson, Woodrow
Overbear′ing, inclined to domineer, esp. in manner or conduct: haughty and dogmatical: imperious.—adv.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
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