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
To coercively surveil a people is not just an unconstitutional attack on their privacy, but an assault on their human dignity.
From Salon ● Feb. 20, 2024
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
—Still retain the right of coercively controlling the actions of their citizens, 11.
From An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation by Veblen, Thorstein
