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The Strait currently remains open, but analysts have told CNBC that oil prices could test $100 a barrel if Iran closes the Strait and Western forces try to reopen it by force.
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Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 23 June 2025
Jared Reid, 42, and Rose Kim, 41, the child’s noncustodial parents, are accused of taking the infant by force.
—Tamara Dunn, Denver Post, 21 June 2025
Having taken by force the goods of the peasants in taxes and rent, the rich congregated in cities.
—Ben Woollard, JSTOR Daily, 18 June 2025
Operation Ajax, a joint CIA-British operation, convinced the Shah of Iran, the country’s monarch, to dismiss Mossadegh and drive him from office by force.
—Jeffrey Fields, The Conversation, 18 June 2025
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Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 23 June 2025
Jared Reid, 42, and Rose Kim, 41, the child’s noncustodial parents, are accused of taking the infant by force.
—Tamara Dunn, Denver Post, 21 June 2025
Having taken by force the goods of the peasants in taxes and rent, the rich congregated in cities.
—Ben Woollard, JSTOR Daily, 18 June 2025
Operation Ajax, a joint CIA-British operation, convinced the Shah of Iran, the country’s monarch, to dismiss Mossadegh and drive him from office by force.
—Jeffrey Fields, The Conversation, 18 June 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 4 Jul. 2025.
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