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
Maybe, they’ll need to hope, he will get bored enough in retirement to consider it, or maybe he can be browbeaten into feeling the insatiable itch of public service.
From Slate • Feb. 19, 2024
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
It was whispered in one browbeaten textile union that the mute was an organizer for the C.I.O.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
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