as in pressure
the use of power to impose one's will on another
complied with the order only under duress
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Recent Examples of duress
When incidents occur in off hours, exhausted engineers fix them under duress, leading to Band-Aids, not solutions.
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Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 13 June 2025
Just as likely, the regime will hunker down under duress, prolonging its hold on power.
—Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 12 June 2025
Justice Department prosecutors have broadly hinted that there are other unindicted co-conspirators who lived the high life with Combs while doing his bidding, either willingly or under duress.
—Josh Meyer, USA Today, 5 June 2025
In court Wednesday under the duress of a subpoena, like fellow Combs ex-EA David James who testified earlier this week, Kaplan entered the witness box around 11:45 a.m.
—Dominic Patten, Deadline, 21 May 2025
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Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 13 June 2025
Just as likely, the regime will hunker down under duress, prolonging its hold on power.
—Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 12 June 2025
Justice Department prosecutors have broadly hinted that there are other unindicted co-conspirators who lived the high life with Combs while doing his bidding, either willingly or under duress.
—Josh Meyer, USA Today, 5 June 2025
In court Wednesday under the duress of a subpoena, like fellow Combs ex-EA David James who testified earlier this week, Kaplan entered the witness box around 11:45 a.m.
—Dominic Patten, Deadline, 21 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for duress
Noun
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Seattle put the pressure on Jan Oblak and his defense, forcing the Slovenian into a few saves while sending more attempts just beyond the frame of goal.—
Jeff Rueter,
New York Times,
20 June 2025
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China is planning to conduct an in-flight escape test at maximum dynamic pressure later this year.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
20 June 2025
Noun
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The team is already looking to expand the model to account for real-world constraints, such as regional resource availability, cost, and lifecycle performance.—
Ron Schmelzer,
Forbes.com,
20 June 2025
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Democratic governors pointed to financial constraints and anticipated federal funding cuts as primary reasons for reversing course.—
Nick Mordowanec,
MSNBC Newsweek,
20 June 2025
Noun
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His compulsion to take a rock and roll path also had a lot to do with girls.—
Mike Fleming Jr,
Deadline,
5 June 2025
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This city, home to an industry drawing us by compulsion into a disembodied parareality—an industry whose costliest venture to date, the metaverse, was a $36 billion effort to rivet headsets to all our faces—remained obstinately physical, a place where danger and distress came at you.—
Andrew Kay,
Harpers Magazine,
28 May 2025
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That the use of the tapes and threat of exposure of those tapes to get the women to comply with what Diddy wanted to do is an element of coercion in and of itself.—
Tracy Wright , Lauryn Overhultz,
FOXNews.com,
24 June 2025
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But since the end of World War II, American power has been rooted mostly in cooperation, not coercion.—
KORI SCHAKE,
Foreign Affairs,
24 June 2025
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“Duress.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/duress. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.
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