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According to documents obtained by Fox News Digital, Phypers was charged with two felony counts of injuring a spouse, and two felony counts of dissuading a witness by force or threat.
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Christina Dugan Ramirez , Tracy Wright, FOXNews.com, 20 Oct. 2025
The United States’s defeat of Péralte’s opposition, called the Cacos rebellion, was widely viewed by Haitians as having upended the Haitian revolutionary principles of freedom and independence upon which their country was founded while encouraging rule by force.
—Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025
Phypers is facing criminal charges, including two counts of injuring a spouse, cohabitant, fiancé, boyfriend, girlfriend or child's parent; and two counts of dissuading a witness by force or threat.
—Liza Esquibias, PEOPLE, 18 Oct. 2025
The land was occupied by force, and the Navy has hardly admitted wrongdoing.
—MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Oct. 2025
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Christina Dugan Ramirez , Tracy Wright, FOXNews.com, 20 Oct. 2025
The United States’s defeat of Péralte’s opposition, called the Cacos rebellion, was widely viewed by Haitians as having upended the Haitian revolutionary principles of freedom and independence upon which their country was founded while encouraging rule by force.
—Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025
Phypers is facing criminal charges, including two counts of injuring a spouse, cohabitant, fiancé, boyfriend, girlfriend or child's parent; and two counts of dissuading a witness by force or threat.
—Liza Esquibias, PEOPLE, 18 Oct. 2025
The land was occupied by force, and the Navy has hardly admitted wrongdoing.
—MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for by force
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“By force.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/by%20force. Accessed 24 Oct. 2025.
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