browbeaten 1 of 2

variants or browbeat
past participle of browbeat

browbeaten

2 of 2

adjective

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of browbeaten
Verb
Not to the extent that the user is necessarily being browbeaten. Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Adjective
Not to mention the relentless White House campaign to browbeat Fed Chair Jerome Powell to lower rates while auditioning dovish successors. Michael Santoli, CNBC, 16 Aug. 2025 Some of them used that stage to browbeat Democratic politicians. David Weigel, semafor.com, 11 Aug. 2025 But analysts have said Trump’s aggressive campaign to browbeat Powell into backing rate cuts could jeopardize the Fed’s autonomy and unnerve markets. Paul Davidson, USA Today, 8 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for browbeaten
Verb
  • While exhibitions are the biggest draw, the site has also welcomed more than 5,000 people to its open days, including 1,600 students from nearby schools who might feel intimidated to step into Chanel’s offices in central Paris.
    Joelle Diderich, Footwear News, 29 Sep. 2025
  • We will not be intimidated by your threat to engage in mass firings.
    Alexander Bolton, The Hill, 25 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • After getting bullied in elementary school, his mom, the comic book writer Elaine Lee, homeschooled him.
    Elisabeth Garber-Paul, Rolling Stone, 2 Oct. 2025
  • In fact, this whole jaunt to Flatbush has been a somewhat haunting trip down memory lane for Oliver, who has been having flashbacks of being bullied and judged for his little purple scarf and penchant for the arts.
    Tom Smyth, Vulture, 30 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • One answer was to build a Jewish state; the other, to fight for the emancipation of all oppressed people through universalist, often left-wing, politics.
    Ian Buruma, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
  • To One Piece fans, the flag symbolizes Luffy’s quest to chase his dreams, liberate oppressed people, and fight the autocratic World Government.
    Lex Harvey, CNN Money, 20 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • There are liberals in media, but the corporations are now either controlled by the right wing or frightened of it.
    Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 20 Sep. 2025
  • Family pets, especially dogs, are frightened by the noise and will hide or try to run away.
    Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • The reportedly downtrodden facility is also where Luigi Mangione, accused of murdering United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, is imprisoned.
    Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 23 Sep. 2025
  • The group has managed over the years to tie the issue of its weapons to its own identity and the very fate of the once-downtrodden Lebanese Shia community.
    Bilal Y. Saab, Time, 18 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • There are certainly no major factors like physical abuse during our childhood; however, our mother had some psychological problems and showed some anger and paranoia symptoms, which scared us as children and were overt enough that many in our town knew about her.
    R. Eric Thomas, Mercury News, 25 Sep. 2025
  • There are certainly no major factors like physical abuse during our childhood, however, our mother had some psychological problems and showed some anger and paranoia symptoms, which scared us as children and were overt enough that many in our town knew about her.
    R. Eric Thomas, Denver Post, 25 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Billions of microbes are hard at work dissolving compounds in this giant mound of crushed ore from Escondida, the biggest copper mine on the planet.
    Vanessa Bates Ramirez, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Embedded with crushed tourmaline, jade, obsidian, and amethyst, HealthyLine’s multitasking wellness device puts five types of tension-melting therapy at one’s fingertips.
    Jenny Berg, Vogue, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Kimmel was benched for three nights by ABC after Brendan Carr, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, threatened to punish the network over comments the host made in a monologue.
    Michael Schneider, Variety, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Since then, dozens of tariffs have been threatened, implemented, delayed and changed, ushering in an environment of economic uncertainty for business owners who are unsure of what to expect next.
    Laura L. Davis, Nashville Tennessean, 2 Oct. 2025

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“Browbeaten.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/browbeaten. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.

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