coercion
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Are you entering into this of your own free will — without any coercion?
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026
That’s the story behind his coercion against Canada to open the long-awaited Gordie Howe International Bridge between Detroit and Windsor, Ontario.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
They said they view the situation as an example of captive market exploitation and economic coercion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
This sparked a domestic consumption movement to counter what many Taiwanese saw as economic coercion.
From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026
Chandresh was more than willing to let him organize the lighting, having already deemed him invaluable to the circus planning with only mild coercion.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
Who knows what coercions they deployed back in the day to corral those students into submission; at least that’s the fear evinced by today’s new campus dating policies.
From Newsweek ● Mar. 20, 2015
"English liberty" is perfectly consistent, as we all admit, with compulsory registration, vaccination, education, taxation, insurance, inspection, and countless other legal coercions.
From Freedom In Service Six Essays on Matters Concerning Britain's Safety and Good Government by Hearnshaw, F. J. C. (Fossey John Cobb)
An infantile captive wields certain coercions to fair treatment peculiar to nonage.
From The Ordeal A Mountain Romance of Tennessee by Duer, Douglas
It must be, therefore, necessary to supply the defects of education, and to produce, by salutary coercions, those effects which it is vain to expect from other causes.
From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 10 Parlimentary Debates I by Johnson, Samuel
“Between the coercions of the sensible order and those of the ideal order, our mind is thus wedged tightly”.
From The pragmatic theory of truth as developed by Peirce, James, and Dewey by Geyer, Delton Loring
Vocabulary lists containing coercion
100 SAT words Beginning with "C"
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President Trump's Second State of the Union Address (2019)
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
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