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Three years before Mauritius’s independence in 1968, the U.K. split off the archipelago to create a new entity called the British Indian Overseas Territory, in a deal that Mauritians now claim was forced upon them.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026

“It’s something that’s been forced upon us to think about. But people use it to great effect.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 12, 2025

"That decision to contract has been forced upon theatres because it's so expensive, and increasingly so, to make work," he told BBC News.

From BBC • Apr. 14, 2025

But to date, there have been no public reports that such an admittedly difficult situation has been forced upon health care providers.

From Slate • Feb. 6, 2025

Lippmann’s short position may have been forced upon him, but by the end of 2005 he’d made it his own, and grown it to a billion dollars.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis




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