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has coerced
  • present perfect of coerce (3rd person singular).

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This work is necessary – but it can only proceed with a more sophisticated analysis of how today’s landscape of hyperrational power has coerced a new and increasingly potent irrationalism into existence.

From The Guardian • Dec. 8, 2016

"Nobody has coerced us...to take this decision," Jega said.

From Newsweek • Feb. 8, 2015