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Recent Examples of force-feed
And do those keys happen to unlock a Time Laser or a psychotic artificial intelligence robot force-feeding contestants pizza and ice cream?
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Dalton Ross, EW.com, 16 June 2025
When their characters begin fighting, Shauna ultimately bites Melissa’s arm before force-feeding her a piece of it.
—Jenelle Riley, Variety, 15 May 2025
Instead, Misty leads a crew to force-feed him through a tube.
—Erin Qualey, Vulture, 14 Mar. 2025
Attempts to force-feed Jokic resulted in bad-pass turnovers.
—Bennett Durando, The Denver Post, 25 Dec. 2024
Price of a delicacy: Physicists are developing a new way of producing foie gras that doesn’t require force-feeding the birds.
—Natasha Frost, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2025
However, the grim force-feeding situation becomes the last straw for Natalie, who seems to be the only Yellowjacket left with any sort of internal moral compass.
—Erin Qualey, Vulture, 14 Mar. 2025
Rich whispered as the boat crew force-fed me pita bread.
—Olga Khazan, The Atlantic, 18 Feb. 2025
Advertisement When the synthetic compound was force-fed to rats at doses of 1 gram per kilogram of body weight for two years, the animals developed kidney cancer and other forms of renal disease.
—Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, 15 Jan. 2025
Dalton Ross, EW.com, 16 June 2025
When their characters begin fighting, Shauna ultimately bites Melissa’s arm before force-feeding her a piece of it.
—Jenelle Riley, Variety, 15 May 2025
Instead, Misty leads a crew to force-feed him through a tube.
—Erin Qualey, Vulture, 14 Mar. 2025
Attempts to force-feed Jokic resulted in bad-pass turnovers.
—Bennett Durando, The Denver Post, 25 Dec. 2024
Price of a delicacy: Physicists are developing a new way of producing foie gras that doesn’t require force-feeding the birds.
—Natasha Frost, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2025
However, the grim force-feeding situation becomes the last straw for Natalie, who seems to be the only Yellowjacket left with any sort of internal moral compass.
—Erin Qualey, Vulture, 14 Mar. 2025
Rich whispered as the boat crew force-fed me pita bread.
—Olga Khazan, The Atlantic, 18 Feb. 2025
Advertisement When the synthetic compound was force-fed to rats at doses of 1 gram per kilogram of body weight for two years, the animals developed kidney cancer and other forms of renal disease.
—Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, 15 Jan. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for force-feed
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The case rocked Britain, seeming to expose a remorseless serial killer who, prosecutors said, used a bizarre range of techniques to kill her tiny, often very premature, victims: Injecting them with air, overfeeding them with milk or contaminating their feeds with insulin.—
Megan Specia,
New York Times,
21 Mar. 2025
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Napping after overfeeding on food is a dilemma many of us will be fortunate to face on Christmas Day.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
18 Dec. 2024
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This is a particularly brutal blow for Harvard, which has been relying on rich international students to fatten their coffers for decades.—
Joe Battenfeld,
Boston Herald,
27 May 2025
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The biggest crypto firms spent lavishly in 2023 and 2024 to fatten Fairshake’s war chest, which collected more than $162 million in that time frame; Coinbase contributed $46.5 million, Ripple Labs, $45 million and Andreessen Horowitz, a major crypto investor, $44 million.—
Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times,
15 May 2025
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Send three thoughtful messages daily and watch your pipeline fill with warm leads.—
Jodie Cook,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2025
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The home created for the program was filled with a gym, healthful food and other healthful amenities.—
Sean Krofssik,
Hartford Courant,
23 June 2025
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As a theater critic surfeited with plays, radio dramas worked best for me as an unplanned diversion in my car.—
Charles McNulty,
Los Angeles Times,
28 May 2025
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But surfeited with at-home entertainment options, former subscribers are preferring the flexibility of single-ticket sales.—
Charles McNulty,
Los Angeles Times,
1 July 2023
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