coerce
verb (used with object)
to compel by force, intimidation, or authority, especially without regard for individual desire or volition.
had coerced
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past perfectof coerce.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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In a video message, González said Maduro's aides had coerced him into signing a letter while he was hiding in the Spanish embassy in Venezuela's capital Caracas earlier this month.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2024
Legal advocates said that the police in Idaho Falls had coerced him into confessing to the crime.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 9, 2021
Flynn admitted lying before two different judges and told Sullivan at a 2018 hearing that no one had coerced him to admit his guilt and that he had no intention of taking back his plea.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 11, 2020
He noted at an aborted sentencing hearing that year that he was alarmed to see Mr. Flynn appear to argue in court filings that he had not really lied and that investigators had coerced him.
From New York Times ● May 13, 2020
He could only suppose that her brother had coerced her, and that she had given him the slip and tried to release the man—with the result he had witnessed.
From The Wild Geese by Stanley John Weyman
