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She has a deep compulsion to make herself the center of attention.compulsion = urge, desire, or need
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Some pay their taxes with a sense of philanthropy and others through compulsion.compulsion = legal requirement
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My eating compulsion doesn't make sense.compulsion = a strong (possibly uncontrollable) urge to do something
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And I told you it was because I had a compulsion, a feeling I just had to come to that particular place at that particular moment? (source)compulsion = a strong urge to do something
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A new compulsion had ignited within him. (source)compulsion = a strong (possibly uncontrollable) urge to do something
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A compulsion had driven her here, and for the first time in three weeks the feeling was gone. (source)
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He tried to convey the compulsion to track down and kill that was swallowing him up. (source)compulsion = a strong (possibly uncontrollable) urge to do something
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Gave her compulsions.† (source)compulsions = urges or requirements to do things
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They swarmed all over each other in their frenzied compulsion to bludgeon him, kick him, gouge him, trample him. (source)compulsion = a strong (possibly uncontrollable) urge to do something
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The obsessive: glove-wearing, germ-phobic, bundled year round with scarves, twitching and racked with compulsions.† (source)compulsions = urges or requirements to do things
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He wondered vaguely whether in the abolished past it had been a normal experience to lie in bed like this, in the cool of a summer evening, a man and a woman with no clothes on, making love when they chose, talking of what they chose, not feeling any compulsion to get up, simply lying there and listening to peaceful sounds outside. (source)compulsion = requirement or urge
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Centuries later, when I was in my satyr period, I felt that I finally understood poor don Balthazar's priapic compulsions, but in those days it was mostly a hindrance to keeping young girls on the estate's staff.† (source)compulsions = urges or requirements to do things
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Under what inward compulsion? (source)compulsion = an urge, force, or requirement to do something
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I thought of Lou Ann's compulsions in church.† (source)compulsions = urges or requirements to do things
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that spontaneous compulsion of the male to fight with or because of or over the partner with which he has recently or is about to copulate. (source)compulsion = an urge, force, or requirement to do something
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Day after day, whether he was at home or off on one of his innumerable trips, he worked lunatic hours, often from eight in the morning until midnight, and when he asked himself why—there were many in the firm who felt no such compulsions—he could find no adequate reason, or, rather, found too many.† (source)compulsions = urges or requirements to do things
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