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  • noun Plural form of compulsion.

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Examples

  • Or, perhaps, there never was and never can be a friendship so long as this person seeks deliverance in compulsions and evasions.

    29 Gifts: 7 2009

  • Or, perhaps, there never was and never can be a friendship so long as this person seeks deliverance in compulsions and evasions.

    Archive 2009-12-01 2009

  • First, manage the balance between the short-term compulsions of providing ample liquidity and the potential build-up of inflationary pressures on the way forward.

    VCCircle News 2009

  • As the oldest WVMP vampire next to Monroe, his compulsions were the strongest.

    Bring On the Night Jeri Smith-Ready 2010

  • As the oldest WVMP vampire next to Monroe, his compulsions were the strongest.

    Bring On the Night Jeri Smith-Ready 2010

  • Only if memory is a matter of reconstruction of latent physical traces, not direct recall of past events, Changeux argues, could these kind of drug-induced long-term compulsions occur.

    How the Mind Works: Revelations Rosenfield, Israel 2008

  • He finds he can't use Starla for his biological compulsions, which is why he ends up back at Brenda Gutierrez '.

    Epinions Recent Content for Home 2009

  • People use a wide variety of "compulsions" (actions one feels that are not freely chosen) to shut down overwhelming pain or to distract from it.

    Bruce E. Levine: Lost Common Sense about Depression: Relationships 2008

  • What I'm against is any kind of compulsions on teachers to do this that or the other, and that is what, from memory, I didn't like about the repeal.

    Cripes! London is buggered! Johnny Guitar 2008

  • In Canterbury, more than any other church in England, the "compulsions" that Larkin noted have to do with worldly power.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010

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