forced upon

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However, completely gutting the backline - even with some of the changes forced upon him - would be his most radical call yet.

From BBC • Mar. 3, 2026

The big PBMs are now trying to pre-empt change before it is forced upon them.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025

“It’s something that’s been forced upon us to think about. But people use it to great effect.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 12, 2025

Problematically, the only cruises I had been on in real life were those forced upon me in my youth — the Disney and Carnival variety.

From Salon • Jul. 4, 2025

I thought about tattoos, about the connection, about the tattoo on Ema’s back, the tattoo on Antoine’s face—and most horrifically, the Auschwitz concentration camp tattoo forced upon a young girl named Elizabeth Sobek.

From "Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel" by Harlan Coben