coerced
Example Sentences
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“He had no reason to think that any woman was coerced into a forced marriage.”
On Friday, they spent the entire four hours allocated for the day discussing a group of 21 amendments on safeguards designed to prevent people being coerced or encouraged into an assisted death.
From BBC
In each case, the court relied on coerced confessions without lawyers present, according to rights groups.
From New York Times
At least 800 Ukrainian officials were co-opted into working for the FSB, some willingly, some coerced.
From BBC
A former Fox News producer has altered her deposition testimony in the defamation case against the network, claiming she was coerced by company lawyers to give misleading answers.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
