as in to intimidate
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Following his arrest, law enforcement learned that Reardon called the Israeli Consulate in Boston 98 times between Oct. 7, 2023 and Jan. 29, 2024, and made harassing and intimidating statements.—
Rick Sobey,
Boston Herald,
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Kara Nesvig,
Allure,
14 Aug. 2025
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Don’t try to browbeat your rivals into making a trade.—
Andy McCullough,
New York Times,
29 July 2025
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At a two-day meeting that concludes Wednesday, the Fed is widely expected to hold its key interest rate steady despite President Donald Trump’s monthslong campaign aimed at browbeating Fed Chair Jerome Powell and his colleagues into cutting rates.—
Paul Davidson,
USA Today,
28 July 2025
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McMillan is used to bullying significantly less talented and shorter corners in the college sphere.—
Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
13 Aug. 2025
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Vulnerable and disabled people will be targeted and bullied into ending their lives.—
Teri Sforza,
Oc Register,
12 Aug. 2025
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Over the past year, small-scale protests have occasionally taken place outside Villa Park and fans have threatened to hold walkouts during games.—
Jacob Tanswell,
New York Times,
14 Aug. 2025
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The family defended themselves against an angry mob of hundreds of people who surrounded the house, throwing rocks and threatening the family, Duggan said.—
Dana Afana,
Freep.com,
14 Aug. 2025
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Fortunately, professional historians have not been cowed like many university leaders, law firms and others who have shamefully capitulated to Trump’s assault on free speech and intellectual integrity.—
John Lawrence,
Twin Cities,
18 July 2025
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They are designed to cow our country's judges, our country's courts and our legal profession.—
Michael Posner,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2025
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Nothing in the Constitution of the United States allows for private citizens to terrorize and kill people.—
Letters to the Editor,
The Orlando Sentinel,
12 Aug. 2025
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He is accused of killing the CEO of a major U.S. health insurer in order to terrorize the industry, according to prosecutors — but now details of his own personal insurance plan have become a flashpoint in the case against him.—
Michael Ruiz,
FOXNews.com,
12 Aug. 2025
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The lawsuit alleges the grant conditions coerce local governments into adopting the Trump administration's policy agenda.—
Alison Dirr,
jsonline.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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But, as archaeologist Sean Winter writes, also like in the US, the reality involves a lot of people coerced into laboring for the benefit of the most powerful.—
Livia Gershon,
JSTOR Daily,
7 Aug. 2025
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The eggs belonged to California red-legged frogs, an amphibian that had been eaten, bulldozed and eventually pushed out of the state decades earlier.—
Nathan Rott,
NPR,
19 July 2025
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Strum bulldozed into a system that had been well-funded and unmotivated to change.—
Cindy Krischer Goodman,
Sun Sentinel,
17 July 2025
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“Arm-twist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/arm-twist. Accessed 22 Aug. 2025.
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