duress
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Filled with my furniture, with paintings and posters leaning against its corrugated metal walls, it looked like the house in microcosm, as if I had moved, under duress, to a shipping container.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026
Amodei called the memo an "out-of-date assessment of the current situation," written under duress on a day that saw his company under extreme pressure from the government.
From Barron's • Mar. 6, 2026
Haggis has its defenders, but it is not, for most Americans, a food you crave under emotional duress.
From Salon • Feb. 28, 2026
However, Masud has claimed the confession is false, was made under duress and should be ruled inadmissible before his trial in Washington DC later this year.
From BBC • Feb. 11, 2026
The third for setting fire to her Housemistress’s false-hair bun, which, under duress, Rahel confessed to having stolen.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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