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compelling
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    It was not exactly a compelling reason to stay on in Welch for one more year.†  (source)
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    Hands grabbed my wrists and pried my hands from my face, compelling me to bend over.†  (source)
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    I could feel Meg's command sinking into my muscles, compelling me to obey.†  (source)
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    A compelling case for sex education in the schools.†  (source)
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    Yet there are times when a deeper need enters, when we want the poem to be not only pleasurably right but compellingly wise, not only a surprising variation played upon the world, but a re-tuning of the world itself.†  (source)
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    But the Bene Gesserit ways were devious and compelling.†  (source)
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    And how distant, cold, and compellingly attractive was this woman to whom he had sacrificed all he had, whom he had preferred to everything, and in comparison with whom everything seemed to him worthless!†  (source)
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    There was always a compelling pleasantness about him.†  (source)
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    And then, most compellingly for Laila, there is Mariam.†  (source)
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    I guess I've just never found a compelling reason to leave Tinos.†  (source)
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    What a compellingly modern horror story.†  (source)
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    None of this compelling mitigating evidence was presented at trial, and it should have been.†  (source)
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    UNFORTUNATELY, however, the Christmas dinner at the Griffiths', which included the Starks and their daughter Arabella, Mr. and Mrs. Wynant, who in the absence of their daughter Constance with Gilbert were dining with the Griffiths, the Arnolds, Anthonys, Harriets, Taylors and others of note in Lycurgus, so impressed and even overawed Clyde that although five o'clock came and then six, he was incapable of breaking away or thinking clearly and compellingly of his obligation to Roberta.†  (source)
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