verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Officials coerced peasants into voting for the government candidates.
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Ray withdrew his confession, saying that he had been coerced by the police.
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The company paid the workers the minimum rate of $4.86 an hour, but coerced some to give back half their pay in cash.
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The mine owners coerced the workers into going back to work, by threatening to close down the mines completely.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And yet woman is coerced through submission to the Symbolic order to abandon feminine desire and a peculiarly feminine relation to origins.
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Both firms and workers are being coerced by the same forcemajeure of insufficient demand in the commodity market.
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In many cases, young women are coerced or bribed into relationships with older men.
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She hadn't coerced him in any way.
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They may assert, for instance, that crucial evidence was covered up or a confession was coerced.
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This gives the workforce both a much greater capacity to coerce management and a consciousness of its collective power, claims Mallet.
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Three days later, Ray asked to withdraw his plea, claiming it had been coerced.