domineer
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He could dominate and domineer musicians in a recording studio, once upon a time, but he couldn’t charm 12 people on a 2007 jury into believing his story.
From Time • Mar. 21, 2013
It goes to the head like wine, and you find attempts made outside journalism to dictate, to domineer to blackmail.
From Time Magazine Archive
Nor was she in any way prone to domineer.
From Rachel Ray by Trollope, Anthony
At first she had merely liked to patronize the young college boy; rather to domineer over him, looking upon him as a child in comparison with herself.
From Mildred Arkell, Volume II (of 3) A Novel by Wood, Mrs. Henry
The pale, inscrutable determinateness, and flinchless intrepidity of Pierre, now began to domineer upon them; for any social unusualness or greatness is sometimes most impressive in the retrospect.
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman
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