coercively
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When challenged whether he was coercively controlling couriers for his own ends, he said: "No, it's more of a bartering system. They want something and I want something. It goes hand in hand."
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
They arise when coercively monolithic social forms come under new pressures that weaken and subvert them.
From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2023
Some of the rules could be used coercively, Christophe Deloire, the Reporters Without Borders secretary general, said in the statement.
From New York Times ● Sep. 23, 2021
It is all assisted by the coercively sinister score by Mica Levi.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 27, 2019
We cheerfully agree, with Kant, that a spiritual world cannot be proved coercively and in such knock-down fashion that belief cannot be avoided.
From Psychical Miscellanea Being Papers on Psychical Research, Telepathy, Hypnotism, Christian Science, etc. by J. Arthur Hill
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