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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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The woman then knelt down and got real close to my face, skills picked up during Coercion mi.† (source)Coercion = the process of forcing someone to do something
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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)coerced = forced
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She stretches her hands out in front of her to protect herself, and finds her left hand taken and held by another hand: held gently and without coercion.† (source)coercion = the process of forcing someone to do something
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She grabbed a pair of pliers and coerced the wires from one side of its cranium to the other.† (source)coerced = forced
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Remember, they also put Myers on death row to coerce some of those statements.† (source)coerce = force
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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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We placed you in the situation and we will stand by you — even if it means bending the laws, coercing the courts.'† (source)coercing = forcing
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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)coerces = forces
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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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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)uncoerced = not forcedstandard 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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There is no evidence of mental illness, or of coercion on any part.† (source)coercion = the process of forcing someone to do something
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He is much more accomplished at Occlumency than poor Morfin Gaunt, and I would be astonished if he has not carried an antidote to Veritaserum with him ever since I coerced him into giving me this travesty of a recollection.† (source)coerced = forced
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