as in to intimidate
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for arm-twist
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Goalkeepers can intimidate strikers into poor shooting decisions with a good stare-down.—
Carl Anka,
New York Times,
24 July 2025 -
Cycling shoes can be intimidating—particularly the idea of wearing something that locks your feet right to your bike’s pedals.—
Jennifer Heimlich,
SELF,
23 July 2025
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But in the end, Trump was able to browbeat Republicans into supporting his costly plans to fund long-term tax cuts for the wealthy, more deportations of immigrants and boosting defense spending.—
Brian Bennett,
Time,
3 July 2025
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On monetary policy and interest rates, the administration has displayed both a bizarre propensity to browbeat its own government officials and a complete lack of economic understanding.—
Norbert Michel,
Forbes.com,
26 June 2025
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During his childhood, he was isolated and bullied and eventually became addicted to heroin and struggled with his weight.—
Amanda Lee Myers,
USA Today,
20 July 2025
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Edmondson bullied Lapin the entire round and the Ukrainian looked gas.—
Brian Mazique,
Forbes.com,
19 July 2025
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Only the federal government could afford that, and earlier this year President Donald Trump threatened to shut down FEMA and make the states responsible for disaster relief.—
John Seabrook,
New Yorker,
21 July 2025
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Trump earlier had threatened a 30% tariff on most EU imports, starting Aug. 1.—
Medora Lee,
USA Today,
21 July 2025
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The Pacers are accustomed to winning difficult games on the road this postseason, and nothing about that body of work the past two months suggests they will be cowed by losing star point guard Tyrese Haliburton.—
Andrew Greif,
NBC news,
23 June 2025
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His goal is to make escalation-management harder for Ukraine and its allies and so cow them into submitting to his will rather than risk a nuclear exchange.—
Marc Champion,
Mercury News,
13 June 2025
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During his college career with the Broncos, Jeanty terrorized opposing defenses.—
Evan Massey,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 July 2025
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As the Club World Cup tournament unfolded, thousands of federal agents were roaming the streets of Southern California, seizing people from their workplaces, markets, and other places of daily life, terrorizing entire communities and forcing people into hiding.—
Minky Worden,
Forbes.com,
11 July 2025
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Witnesses testified about whether the original detective and prosecutor in his case had coerced them into testifying against Bell at his 1995 trial.—
The Marshall Project,
The Orlando Sentinel,
15 July 2025
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The school board responded that the materials did no more than expose the children to new ideas, and that in any case nobody was being coerced.—
Stephen L. Carter,
Mercury News,
8 July 2025
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My creative friends now are either scrambling to climb the ladder fast enough to not get bulldozed or pivoting to something AI can’t touch.—
Zoë Sessums,
Architectural Digest,
23 July 2025
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Angry Democrats stormed out of a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Thursday as Republicans bulldozed ahead with the controversial nomination of Emil Bove to a lifetime appointment as a federal appeals court judge.—
Dave Goldiner,
New York Daily News,
17 July 2025
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“Arm-twist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/arm-twist. Accessed 31 Jul. 2025.
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