arm-twisted

verb

past tense of arm-twist
as in browbeat

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  1. browbeat
  2. intimidated
  3. cowed
  4. bullied
  5. threatened
  6. hectored
  7. bulldozed
  8. shamed
Verb
  • Dodgers management didn’t browbeat Treinen and Call, and that’s fine — ballplayers should be entitled to share their personal thoughts, however noxious.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2026
  • No need to legally browbeat AI makers or require AI developers to implement specialized AI safety features.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026
Definition of browbeat
Verb
  • Callaghan said before the game that his team had great respect for Inter Miami but was not intimidated.
    — Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 16 Aug. 2026
  • But if you’re intimidated by the strong stuff, these tumblers also make great water glasses.
    — Mina Dragani, Architectural Digest, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of intimidated
Verb
  • What stood out was his confidence; Bouaddi was never cowed up against the experienced pairing of Bruno Guimaraes and Casemiro.
    — Conor O'Neill, New York Times, 22 July 2026
  • Refusing to be cowed, Sartre responded to Aron with his own book on Marx, the nine-hundred-page Critique of Dialectical Reason, in 1960.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 21 July 2026
Definition of cowed
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  • For over two years, a 16-year-old transgender girl says she was bullied, excluded and discriminated against by her teammates and coaches at the Capital Crew youth rowing program housed at the Sacramento State Aquatic Center.
    — Tarini Mehta, Sacbee.com, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Airing on March 18, 1975, the episode was focused on the Evans family’s young son Michael Evans (Ralph Carter), who was being bullied at school for his lunch money by classmate Eddie (Doug Grant).
    — Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of bullied
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  • The Broncos, who lost in the AFC championship game last season, led 24-0 at halftime and were never threatened.
    — Daniel Flick, AJC.com, 15 Aug. 2026
  • Vendors said enforcement sweeps that began earlier this year have threatened their livelihoods, with authorities confiscating vending equipment and, in some cases, destroying it.
    — Da Lin, CBS News, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of threatened
Verb
  • At school, he was hectored because of his shabby wardrobe.
    — Dan Pompei, New York Times, 23 June 2026
  • For over a century, citizens have been surveilled while the media is harassed and hectored into compromise, so that the official rhetoric of Slavic suprematism can go unchallenged.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 Apr. 2026
Definition of hectored
Verb
  • It is expected to total 444,400 square feet and an existing building on the property would be bulldozed.
    — George Avalos, Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2026
  • Turner gave me a framework for understanding how a profoundly anti-institutional ethos took hold, one that treated democratic institutions as obstacles to be bulldozed on the way to cyber-utopia.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of bulldozed
Verb
  • The women were shamed into surrendering their babies by their families and a powerful church.
    — Bill Whitaker, CBS News, 12 July 2026
  • But because there are rules and codes that have to be honored to make sports work, the transgressors typically are penalized or at least shamed for doing so.
    — Vahe Gregorian July 7, Kansas City Star, 7 July 2026
Definition of shamed
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“Arm-twisted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/arm-twisted. Accessed 20 Aug. 2026.

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