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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McKenna had coerced them and intertwined himself into their lives and into the wider community in Crossmaglen village in south County Armagh.
From BBC ● Mar. 20, 2023
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
The whole infamous plan had been revealed to her through those same supernaturally keen senses, which her strong domineering nature had coerced, until they became the slaves of her will.
From Petticoat Rule by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
