coerce
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
China’s strategy, described by those close to Beijing’s decision-making as Plan A, aims to coerce Taiwan into capitulation without firing a shot.
With the U.S. and China increasingly wielding their economic powers to coerce allies and adversaries alike, European leaders also think a regulatory rollback will help the region’s economy reduce its dependence on both.
He said doctors had a legal right to strike and should not be "bullied or coerced" into working.
From BBC
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