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
"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
In his statement Tuesday, he also suggested that they were racially motivated — James and the newly elected Manhattan district attorney, Alvin Bragg, are Black — and that his accountants had been browbeaten into quitting.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 16, 2022
Why was I always suffering, always browbeaten, always accused, for ever condemned?
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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