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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

To coercively surveil a people is not just an unconstitutional attack on their privacy, but an assault on their human dignity.

From Salon Feb. 20, 2024

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

The situation being so, the criminalist is coercively required, whenever anything abstract is named, first of all to determine accurately what the interlocutor means by his word.

From Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students by Hans Gustav Adolf Gross




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