dragoon into
phrasal verb
dragooned into; dragooning into; dragoons into
: to force or convince (someone) to do (something)
Somehow I was dragooned into working overtime.
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Fueled by hyperkinetic camerawork and dialogue that name-checks the celebrities who are not actually dragooned into making cameos, the series promises an under-the-hood look at the sputtering engine of the motion picture industry in the age of streaming.
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Thomas Doherty, HollywoodReporter, 20 Apr. 2025
There are narrow exceptions for hotels, restaurants, and community facilities, but the broad language could mean anyone from commercial landlords to the Geek Squad potentially being dragooned into secretly aiding U.S. intelligence.
—David Meyer, Fortune, 15 Apr. 2024
The premise has the boys, the worst soldiers imaginable, coping with being dragooned into the U.S. Army at the start of World War I. Mistakenly delivering kitchen trash to a general’s living room is only the start of their woes.
—Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2024
But the women artists in the museum’s collection dragooned into this minor prank, and the generations of women and feminist art historians — Rosalind Krauss, Anne Wagner, Mary Ann Caws, hundreds more — who have devoted their careers to thinking seriously about modern art and gender.
—Jason Farago, New York Times, 1 June 2023
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Thomas Doherty, HollywoodReporter, 20 Apr. 2025
There are narrow exceptions for hotels, restaurants, and community facilities, but the broad language could mean anyone from commercial landlords to the Geek Squad potentially being dragooned into secretly aiding U.S. intelligence.
—David Meyer, Fortune, 15 Apr. 2024
The premise has the boys, the worst soldiers imaginable, coping with being dragooned into the U.S. Army at the start of World War I. Mistakenly delivering kitchen trash to a general’s living room is only the start of their woes.
—Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2024
But the women artists in the museum’s collection dragooned into this minor prank, and the generations of women and feminist art historians — Rosalind Krauss, Anne Wagner, Mary Ann Caws, hundreds more — who have devoted their careers to thinking seriously about modern art and gender.
—Jason Farago, New York Times, 1 June 2023
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“Dragoon into.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dragoon%20into. Accessed 21 May. 2025.
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