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  • verb Present participle of coerce.

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Examples

  • The “liberal” New York Times allowed Judith ‘Stenographer’ Miller to print her unverified stories that were instrumental in coercing the nation into war.

    Think Progress » The NYT knew before the 2004 election. 2005

  • Chief Mate Revett was apparently the most brutal in coercing labor.

    The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876 2005

  • Ms. Thornton confirmed that 15 inmates at Pelican Bay had been moved to an administrative housing unit because they were identified as coercing other inmates into participation.

    NYT > Home Page By IAN LOVETT 2011

  • Ms. Thornton confirmed that 15 inmates at Pelican Bay had been moved to an administrative housing unit because they were identified as coercing other inmates into participation.

    NYT > Home Page By IAN LOVETT 2011

  • Ms. Thornton confirmed that 15 inmates at Pelican Bay had been moved to an administrative housing unit because they were identified as coercing other inmates into participation.

    NYT > Home Page By IAN LOVETT 2011

  • Here is why I think that calling coercing sex through non-violent pressure rape serves our mutual goals:

    Isn’t it good we have men to tell us what to do 2006

  • If we all or most of us agree to call coercing sex through non-violent pressure rape, then that is what rape is.

    Isn’t it good we have men to tell us what to do 2006

  • One speaker justified Southern secession by urgent considerations of necessity and safety; another scouted the idea of coercing a seceding State; to a third, peaceful separation, though painful and humiliating, seemed the only safe and honourable way.

    A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3 DeAlva Stanwood Alexander

  • Home Rule Bill which it modified, the one thing certain was that the idea of coercing Ulster was dead.

    Ulster's Stand For Union Ronald John McNeill 1897

  • Many of the Confederates were of opinion that this decisive victory would be the end of the war, and that the North, seeing that the South was able as well as willing to defend the position it had taken up, would abandon the idea of coercing it into submission.

    With Lee in Virginia A Story of the American Civil War 1867

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