Coerce

//koʊˈɝs//

"Coerce" in a Sentence (5 examples)

I can try to persuade her to go, but I can't coerce her.

He said laws should not coerce but protect public health while protecting human rights.

America uses its economic heft to coerce rivals and allies.

They coerced their children into going to the country park.

A woman who freely engages in any of these activities, or who rejects anti-porn dogma, is thought to be coerced, brainwashed, an apologist of the patriarchy or a "social man." A woman who agrees that she has been coerced into one of these activities will be honored by anti-porners. The opinions of the rest of us are routinely discounted.

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