as in forces
to cause (a person) to give in to pressure
she was dragooned into agreeing to the fraudulent scheme
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But what begins as a local emergency soon spirals into a deeper, more terrifying mystery, one that forces the town’s residents to confront the unknown.—
Rebecca Rubin,
Variety,
10 Apr. 2026 -
This constraint forces strict prioritization.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
10 Apr. 2026
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However, the rotation of this filament clearly dominates how the galaxies within it spin, perhaps by funneling hydrogen gas along the dark-matter filament and onto the galaxies in a way that coerces their spin while providing further fuel for star formation.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
4 Dec. 2025
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Haunted by the suspicious death of his ailing mother, Ali, a university professor, coerces his enigmatic gardener to execute a cold-blooded act of vengeance.—
Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
14 Nov. 2025
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Combined with Angel and Rue’s drive through the desert, Levinson seems to be pointing at the hollowness of the American Dream, which compels a person to risk their life, only to end up photographing dumb bimbos for OnlyFans.—
Rafaela Bassili,
Vulture,
20 Apr. 2026
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DeSantis has avoided saying that lawmakers should be redrawing the map for partisan gains, instead saying a looming decision from the Supreme Court on the Voting Rights Act compels the state to redistrict.—
Caroline Vakil,
The Hill,
14 Apr. 2026
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Prisoners exchanged Russia's Defense Ministry said that a prisoner swap Saturday brought home 175 of its soldiers.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
11 Apr. 2026
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Another work from this era, Veterans Day (2016), features a flow of musical notes that surround a framed newspaper article about the conviction of Muhammad Ali for refusing to fight in the American war in Vietnam and an old photograph of soldiers raising their fists.—
Alex Greenberger,
ARTnews.com,
11 Apr. 2026
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The young women and their cavaliers headed to L’Arc, a nightclub in Paris situated near the Shangri-La; there, the group continued their celebrations some hours later.—
Zoey Lyttle,
PEOPLE,
1 Dec. 2025
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Then immigration officers, who are often following the state troopers or riding with them, interrogate the driver and passengers, according to Vecindarios 901, an immigration rapid-response organization that has witnessed dozens of stops.—
Wendi C. Thomas,
ProPublica,
15 Apr. 2026
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The state has also demanded that highway troopers, fish and wildlife officers, and university police work with ICE.—
Mary Ellen Klas,
Mercury News,
15 Apr. 2026
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Two warriors gleam in the midst of Indian Combat (1868) and continue their brawl to the death, one knife-edge away from mortality.—
Tyehimba Jess,
ARTnews.com,
17 Apr. 2026
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But the Ballances were more than gallant warriors – in fact, a life-size oil painting of Marti’s great-grandfather Charles Ballance’s wife and children – including her grandfather Willis as a 3-year-old – hangs in a place of honor at the Illinois State Museum in Springfield.—
Denise Crosby,
Chicago Tribune,
17 Apr. 2026
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“Dragoons.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dragoons. Accessed 22 Apr. 2026.
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