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Usually, the one reaching out for help is the sibling tasked with holding power of attorney or serving as executor of an estate, and who is being hectored by a troublesome sibling.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026
Eager to shock, he hectored refined Athenians in the market square.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 17, 2025
“To be hectored and condemned; to be told that they were wholly wrong” was for Lincoln “a path not to reform but to intransigence,” Meacham writes.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 25, 2022
He hectored couples as they waited at the hospital for abortions on account of fetal abnormalities, which were permitted until the law was further tightened last year.
From New York Times ● Jul. 30, 2022
After Beidleman and the others had set out from the huddle to get help, Madsen had gathered together the climbers who remained and hectored everybody to keep moving in order to stay warm.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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