Example Sentences

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“What’s happening is that Kevin De León staffers ... are coercing people against their will into temporary shelters that are not always a good fit for them,” said Camnitzer, a writer who lives downtown.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 17, 2022

The request coincided with a new U.S. law banning many imports from Xinjiang over concerns that Chinese authorities are coercing Uyghurs into forced labor.

From Washington Post • Jan. 16, 2022

But it’s very difficult to catch people who are coercing employees.

From Slate • Sep. 9, 2020

Just now comes Premier Tuan's report to the President that the Entente Powers are coercing China to join the Allies.

From Peking Dust by La Motte, Ellen Newbold

The French indignantly repudiate the suggestion that they are coercing the Montenegrin King.

From The New Frontiers of Freedom from the Alps to the Ægean by Powell, E. Alexander (Edward Alexander)