compel

Krishnan plans to introduce legislation to compel the department to assess the proposal.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

Some argue this would compel parties to find their funding via lots of small donations rather than fewer giant ones.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

The release is part of an agreement with 9/11 Health Watch, a victims' advocacy group that had taken legal action to compel the city to make the documents public.

From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026

He instructed Southern postmasters to record and publicize the names of even individual subscribers to abolitionist newspapers to encourage intimidation by their neighbors and perhaps even compel them to leave the South.

From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2026

“Neither sleet nor rain nor a half inch of snow will compel me to dress like a lumberjack.”

From "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman

It’s not just their goony sense of humor that compels them to make silly intro videos and do funny accents.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026

A subpoena compels a party to release specified internal documents or information.

From BBC ● May 27, 2026

The written word compels you to think and a heightened conscience is one of the essential elements required to bring about change.

From Barron's ● May 21, 2026

It is, as yet, a dud — a $2,000 slot machine that pays out a Community Note dressed as a verdict, in a process that compels nothing and binds no one.

From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2026

And after seeing her smile like that at me, something compels me to go all in.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

He said he felt compelled to raise the issue because he saw a lot of children and pregnant women at the restaurant.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

Yet she felt compelled to keep that passion hidden.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

All her life, Beatty said, she has felt compelled to stand up for her rights, especially as a woman of color.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026

You may sense what I’m talking about whenever you’re compelled to answer the “ba-dee-ya” call in Earth Wind & Fire’s “September.”

From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026

He resolved that to preserve his credibility as supervising architect, a role in which he would be compelled to oversee the work of other exposition architects, he would not himself design any of the buildings.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

"We're going all in here. We believe that the evidence is substantial and compelling and warrants the respondent's removal from office," he added.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026

Good form for a young player, but not so compelling he had to go straight into the Spurs first team.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

But the Menin discovery, together with subsequent findings, offers a compelling reason to explore whether some of the biological changes associated with aging are more reversible than previously thought.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026

As his latest book ‘The Radiance’ blurs the lines between memory and invention, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author makes a compelling case for why literature remains our richest record of human consciousness.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

Rishi first tried it with one of Ma’s Bollywood magazines and found it weirdly compelling, not even minding that his fingers were constantly covered in paper cuts.

From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon