ARM-TWISTED Synonyms: 50 Similar and Opposite Words

arm-twisted

verb

past tense of arm-twist

as in browbeat

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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

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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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View this post on Instagram Priscilla Villanueva said her son, Dakota Cabrera, has been bullied for wearing his hair in a braid, but seeing Pete do the same gives him hope.

— Marissa Armas, CBS News, 24 Aug. 2026
Trump has all but severed America’s system of alliances, mocked and bullied Ukraine’s president, and showered praise upon Kim Jong Un.

— Jonathan Chait, The Atlantic, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of bullied

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Their meeting came days after Trump threatened to bomb the country over their Strait of Hormuz negotiations with Iran.

— Billy Stockwell, CNN Money, 22 Aug. 2026
In 2009, after the advocacy group Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood threatened a class-action lawsuit over deceptive marketing claims, Disney began offering every household a refund for up to four Baby Einstein DVDs.

— Elise Broach, New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of threatened

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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

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Troops then bulldozed over the bodies and vehicles, burying them in a mass grave.

— Julia Frankel, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2026
Hell’s Canyon was bulldozed by the Snake River eroding its path north through the Seven Devil’s Mountains of Idaho and Wallowa Mountains of Oregon.

— Ron Spomer, Outdoor Life, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of bulldozed

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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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