Sample Sentences forcoerce (editor-reviewed)
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It is better to convince than to coerce.coerce = force someone to do something
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They could coerce some of us into fighting with misinformation, or by appealing to greed—any number of ways. (source)coerce = force
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I had no idea what it meant to self-coerce. (source)coerce = force someone to do something
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That you didn't kidnap her, for instance, or that the relatives weren't coerced. (source)coerced = forced
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Remember, they also put Myers on death row to coerce some of those statements.† (source)
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Cajole or coerce a few of these poor devils into a medical exam.† (source)
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That at least has the dignity of coercion.† (source)
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She grabbed a pair of pliers and coerced the wires from one side of its cranium to the other.† (source)
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I never spent the night with anyone who ever tried to coerce me into doing something illegal.† (source)
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Public force is the life and soul of every state: not merely army and police but prisons, judges, tax collectors, every conceivable trick of coercive repression.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ive" converts a word into an adjective; though over time, what was originally an adjective often comes to be used as a noun. The adjective pattern means tending to and is seen in words like attractive, impressive, and supportive. Examples of the noun include narrative, alternative, and detective.
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Is this the still militant old man, standing at the corners of the three kingdoms, on all hands coercing alms of beggars?† (source)
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She slips away, and I grit my teeth as Grandfather coerces me into a stilted discus sion with the governor.† (source)
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Except right here, where Oedipa Maas, with a thousand other people to choose from, had had to walk uncoerced into the presence of madness.† (source)standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in uncoerced means not and reverses the meaning of coerced. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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This has to happen in spite of political climates or coercions, in spite of careers being won or lost, in spite of the fear of being criticized, outcast, or disliked.† (source)
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There is no evidence of mental illness, or of coercion on any part.† (source)
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In this manner, Nina coerced the Count to join her on one of her favorite excursions: spying from the balcony of the ballroom.† (source)
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