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
  • The character of Bourdain’s mother, played by Dagmara Dominczyk, is directly inspired by Johnson’s mother, a physician whose exacting standards both intimidated and shaped him.
    — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 29 July 2026
  • One of her objectives in writing the book was helping home cooks feel less intimidated by the meat counter.
    — Peter Burke, FOXNews.com, 25 July 2026
Definition of intimidated
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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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  • As Southampton’s Cyle Larin showed in April’s 5-1 thrashing, the defence is susceptible to being bullied physically at times.
    — Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2026
  • Growing up in Martinsville, Virginia, Jesse experienced deep poverty and, Cindy said, was bullied because of it.
    — Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of bullied
Verb
  • All told, there are 91 species that live in California and are listed as endangered under the act, and another 51 species listed as threatened.
    — Lizzie Kane, Sacbee.com, 31 July 2026
  • In England, where half the country is gripped by drought, firefighters battled a wildfire on an east coast heath in Suffolk, near a nuclear power station that fire services said wasn’t threatened.
    — Mark Carlson, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 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
  • Wepa Up started out hot, but the War Raiders bulldozed Truth and Damian Priest on the outside.
    — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
  • The highlight of the lottery pick battle was when Lendeborg bulldozed Boozer in transition before flipping in a feathery floater for two points in the first half.
    — Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 15 July 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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