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
Lord Robert has been so used to domineer over men twice his age, on board ship, that he is more unbearable than any young man of rank I ever served.
From The Rival Crusoes The Ship Wreck also A Voyage to Norway; and The Fisherman's Cottage. by Strickland, Agnes
Nor, though the new settlers might domineer, was their domination likely to be more oppressive and insolent than that of the native chief, with his gallowglasses and his coyne and livery.
From Irish History and the Irish Question by Smith, Goldwin
The pale, inscrutable determinateness, and flinchless intrepidity of Pierre, now began to domineer upon them; for any social unusualness or greatness is sometimes most impressive in the retrospect.
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman
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