browbeaten
Example Sentences
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And when enough people feel shamed into silence and emotionally browbeaten into shutting down, things boil over.
From Slate ● Jun. 23, 2025
But the truth is they had to be browbeaten into leading that revolution.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 16, 2023
"I don't expect you will be browbeaten by No 10 to do radical or strange new policies," he told them, but he added there was "no excuse to take your foot off the pedal".
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2022
Among the adversaries that Musk has browbeaten, count the board of Twitter.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2022
He had been browbeaten and humiliated successively that morning by Colonel Cathcart, Colonel Korn and Corporal Whitcomb.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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