compel
Example Sentences
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The LP’s excellent guitar work and soft, swaggering vocals remain compelling.
But it does compel the president to offer a public rationale for the deployment of military force, and it gives Congress the opportunity to scrutinize the president’s claims.
Its new drilling horizons include wells in “compelling” new areas of exploration, the Melius analysts said — and none of them are in the Middle East.
From MarketWatch
After a December 2015 terrorist attack in San Bernardino, Calif., the Federal Bureau of Investigation tried to compel Apple to build a universal back door into the iPhone.
It made for a deeply compelling game; hardcore football that had everything.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
