coerce
Example Sentences
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Now, the four siblings are challenging the agreement as part of their recently filed lawsuit, alleging that they were coerced into signing it without understanding their rights.
From Los Angeles Times
In the end, however, the punditry did not need to be coerced into cheerleading.
From Salon
He also believed they had tried to coerce him, and decided they should have to answer for it publicly.
“It’s not forced on you, because then it’s fake, man. If it’s coerced, I don’t buy it.”
From Los Angeles Times
It is manufactured scarcity designed to coerce consumers into a single brokerage’s ecosystem.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.