forced upon
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The big PBMs are now trying to pre-empt change before it is forced upon them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025
“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
And while the city put together a robust response to the crisis, Adams had no desire to take credit for it, even when it was forced upon him by law.
From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2025
The two organisations - which between them represent private businesses and 12,000 doctors - are angry about the NHI in its current form, feeling it has been forced upon them.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2024
I thought about tattoos, about the connection, about the tattoo on Ema’s back, the tattoo on Antoine’s face—and most horrifically, the Auschwitz concentration camp tattoo forced upon a young girl named Elizabeth Sobek.
From "Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel" by Harlan Coben
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