coercion
noun
the act of coercing; use of force or intimidation to obtain compliance.
Example Sentences
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When challenged whether he was coercively controlling couriers for his own ends, he said: "No, it's more of a bartering system. They want something and I want something. It goes hand in hand."
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
They arise when coercively monolithic social forms come under new pressures that weaken and subvert them.
From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2023
Some of the rules could be used coercively, Christophe Deloire, the Reporters Without Borders secretary general, said in the statement.
From New York Times ● Sep. 23, 2021
It is all assisted by the coercively sinister score by Mica Levi.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 27, 2019
The situation being so, the criminalist is coercively required, whenever anything abstract is named, first of all to determine accurately what the interlocutor means by his word.
From Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students by Hans Gustav Adolf Gross
