browbeaten
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Audiences who endured the Miramax era have been browbeaten to believe that the best picture Oscar should go to a period piece that chokes out a sob from audiences.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 22, 2026
But the truth is they had to be browbeaten into leading that revolution.
From Washington Times • Feb. 16, 2023
In an age when batters are browbeaten with launch angles aimed to produce longballs, the Guardians are an anomaly.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 12, 2022
"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
Why was I always suffering, always browbeaten, always accused, for ever condemned?
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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