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coerces
verb as in compel, press
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Terror drives you on; fate coerces you; you can't help yourself, and my delight is to make the plunge terrible.
But life becomes more indifferent when dignity is mixed up with it, and duty no longer coerces when inclination attracts.
The mechanism of nature as well as the organisation of society surrounds and visibly and invisibly coerces us.
He coerces no customer: he simply states his price, and if no one chooses to buy, no one has a right to complain.
It was because I discerned in you that power which coerces men.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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