as in to force
to cause (a person) to give in to pressure
she was dragooned into agreeing to the fraudulent scheme
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as in cavalryman
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Recent Examples of dragoon
Sal Vaglica, WSJ, 22 Sep. 2023
Simeon of Cyrene would have been the innocent brunch-goer, and the Romans dragoon him into Christ’s Passion, giving him an honor every human on earth should have desired.
—Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 2 Apr. 2021
Marina Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 8 Apr. 2024
What happens with Hermann and the dragoon?
—Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2022
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Verb
When pro landscapers dragoon your neighbor’s turf, mowing is just part of the plan.
—Sal Vaglica, WSJ, 22 Sep. 2023
Simeon of Cyrene would have been the innocent brunch-goer, and the Romans dragoon him into Christ’s Passion, giving him an honor every human on earth should have desired.
—Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 2 Apr. 2021
Noun
The family, Louisville residents, also enjoyed some pizza and crab dragoons from the food trucks.
—Marina Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 8 Apr. 2024
What happens with Hermann and the dragoon?
—Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dragoon
Verb
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His rule finally came to an end in 1998 after the Asian financial crisis threw the country into economic turmoil, prompting widespread protests and forcing Suharto to resign – one of the last people power movements to sweep Southeast Asia and replace a Cold War-era autocrat with democracy.—
Jessie Yeung,
CNN Money,
11 Nov. 2025
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The last of those darts was fired (initially on X) by Gavin Newsom, the governor of California, who is a resistance darling of the moment after forcing through new, Democrat-friendly congressional maps in his state last week.—
Jon Allsop,
New Yorker,
11 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Was the unit’s survival due to the men’s indispensable service as Loyalist laborers and cavalrymen?—
Kinsey Gidick,
Smithsonian Magazine,
12 Dec. 2024
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The novel begins in 1864 with a young man named Bird waking up from a bad dream to the sound of cannon fire and gunshots: Hundreds of U.S. Army cavalrymen are descending on his Cheyenne and Arapaho camp in what will eventually be known as the Sand Creek Massacre.—
Emma Alpern,
Vulture,
27 Feb. 2024
Verb
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Necessity compelled us to use it.—
Judith Martin,
Mercury News,
8 Nov. 2025
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For that reason, too, the Grammy winner was compelled to furnish it primarily in one brand, RH, so that every bit of white oak would be the same.—
Kathryn Romeyn,
Architectural Digest,
7 Nov. 2025
Noun
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The event kicked off with an opening dance, before the debutantes lined up for a waltz with their fathers, who were then passed onto their cavaliers for dancing with a live band.—
Kristen Bateman,
Vogue,
1 Dec. 2024
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Opal is described as a 5-pound red/brown cavapoo — a mix of a King Charles cavalier and a poodle.—
Mike Stunson,
Kansas City Star,
9 July 2024
Verb
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Further complicating matters, Doe was interviewed by Phong Tran, a then-Oakland detective who has since been charged with perjury for allegedly coercing witnesses into falsely incriminating murder defendants.—
Nate Gartrell,
Mercury News,
6 Nov. 2025
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The lawsuit accused the company of coercing customers into signing agreements that allowed the company to act as the exclusive real estate listing agent for an undisclosed period of time.—
Angela Palermo,
Idaho Statesman,
5 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Earlier this year, the Israeli military retrieved the body of another soldier who was killed in the 2014 war.—
Stephen Sorace,
FOXNews.com,
9 Nov. 2025
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Just off the Gregory House, a trail leads to the Hammock Landing Battery, where Confederate soldiers guarded the river from attack, protecting their manufacturing hub in Columbus, Georgia.—
Carrie Honaker,
Travel + Leisure,
9 Nov. 2025
Verb
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These were gangsters, so they weren’t obliged to couch this any way but direct.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
6 Nov. 2025
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Shaw-naé pushed for an in-person appointment, and the doctor obliged.—
Mackenzie Cummings-Grady,
Billboard,
5 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Those involve besting a fellow warrior in battle.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
4 Nov. 2025
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Dek is the weakest link in his warrior family, and the arrival of their father cements that fact; there is no sentimentality here as the elder predator orders Kwei to kill his brother and be done with him.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
4 Nov. 2025
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“Dragoon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dragoon. Accessed 12 Nov. 2025.
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