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Also on the protest line were Ms. Goldstein's friends, ex-husband and a few old boyfriends, whom she had dragooned into picketing duty.

From New York Times • Jul. 31, 2012

He had laid aside his pulpit robe, a tribute to ritualism that this church had dragooned him into accepting.

From The One Woman by Dixon, Thomas