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to make timid or fearful by or as if by threats
they would often browbeat the younger child until he cried
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Recent Examples of browbeating
Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
Verb
This might take a series of browbeating prompts, but that’s not a big deal.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for browbeating
Adjective
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The businessman claimed the payout from the suit would go to anti-bullying causes.—
Madeleine Marr,
Miami Herald,
29 Dec. 2025
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The experience led the Dunns to file a report in accordance with anti-bullying provisions in New York's Dignity For All Students Act.—
Ingrid Vasquez,
PEOPLE,
22 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Kelly, clearly, will keep standing up to these feckless attempts at coercion.—
Chris Brennan,
USA Today,
8 Jan. 2026
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External coercion absent a credible internal political project does not deliver freedom.—
Sanam Vakil,
Time,
8 Jan. 2026
Verb
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His whole body shook, intimidating everyone.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
12 Jan. 2026
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With the season on the line, the 49ers locked in and defied the intimidating circumstances yet again.—
Michael Silver,
New York Times,
12 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Despite his limitations, Joe displayed an impressive degree of ascetic discipline and a ravenous desire for God.—
Christian Wiman,
Harpers Magazine,
30 Dec. 2025
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The fantastical park resembles a theatre set, rife with spiritual allegory and modeled on an ascetic’s dream of utopia.—
Laura May Todd,
Vogue,
21 Dec. 2025
Noun
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Auburn committed 26 against Texas' full- and half-court pressure with the Longhorns turning them into 40 points.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
9 Jan. 2026
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Polymer packaging requires injection molding, which normally uses high pressure.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
9 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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None has been as unflinching as King of Ashes.—
Emma Alpern,
Vulture,
2 Dec. 2025
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After the two action stars famously feuded while working on the Fast & Furious movies and then apparently squashed their beef, Diesel is praising Johnson and his recent performance in The Smashing Machine, the unflinching biopic about mixed martial artist Mark Kerr.—
Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
26 Nov. 2025
Noun
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In recent years Beijing has ramped up its military intimidation of Taiwan, including by simulating blockades.—
Steven Jiang,
CNN Money,
6 Jan. 2026
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Those groups have been active in the streets, detaining opponents and reinforcing regime authority through intimidation.—
Efrat Lachter,
FOXNews.com,
6 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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What frustrated her most was that the issue refused to stay resolved.—
Ashley Vega,
PEOPLE,
30 Dec. 2025
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Since then, attorneys and judges have overseen multiple lenient plea deals and case dismissals, while local prosecutors reviewed hundreds of active and resolved cases that Tran investigated.—
Jakob Rodgers,
Mercury News,
6 Sep. 2025
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“Browbeating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/browbeating. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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