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Hamber and Cooney were arrested later that month and charged with assault, forcible confinement, and criminal negligence causing bodily harm after police investigated the boy's claims.
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Chris Spargo, PEOPLE, 3 Dec. 2025
Masterson was found guilty on two counts of forcible rape in May 2023, and a jury was hung on a third charge during the trial after the seven men and five women deliberated for eight days.
—Tracy Wright, FOXNews.com, 17 Nov. 2025
The effect of deportation, from a Palestinian perspective Palestinian human rights advocates criticize the deportations, which prisoners agreed to under conditions of imprisonment, as forcible displacement.
—Shir David, NPR, 13 Nov. 2025
Court records show Sophie was charged with two counts of burglary, criminal trespassing, simple assault and rape forcible compulsion.
—Mike Stunson, Miami Herald, 30 Oct. 2025
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Chris Spargo, PEOPLE, 3 Dec. 2025
Masterson was found guilty on two counts of forcible rape in May 2023, and a jury was hung on a third charge during the trial after the seven men and five women deliberated for eight days.
—Tracy Wright, FOXNews.com, 17 Nov. 2025
The effect of deportation, from a Palestinian perspective Palestinian human rights advocates criticize the deportations, which prisoners agreed to under conditions of imprisonment, as forcible displacement.
—Shir David, NPR, 13 Nov. 2025
Court records show Sophie was charged with two counts of burglary, criminal trespassing, simple assault and rape forcible compulsion.
—Mike Stunson, Miami Herald, 30 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for forcible
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The biggest gainers in the ITA ETF Monday included drone plays AeroVironment and Red Cat holdings with the companies making the technology seen as crucial to Trump’s new quick and forceful strike policy.—
Alex Harring,
CNBC,
5 Jan. 2026
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The protests are also more forceful.—
Benjamin Weinthal,
FOXNews.com,
5 Jan. 2026
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The powerful currents of flash floods can carry drivers off the road.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
9 Nov. 2025
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Northrop revealed that measuring smaller than a business card, the EW system was not only the smallest at the event but also the most capable, packing powerful performance into an unprecedented form factor.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
9 Nov. 2025
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This was the company that Thomas Edison built, with a management system so potent that investors once believed it could be applied to light bulbs, nuclear reactors, Saturday Night Live and its opaque GE Capital finance arm with equal results.—
Diane Brady,
Fortune,
6 Jan. 2026
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Prosecutors said that in December 2024, Mexican authorities raided multiple fentanyl production labs across Sinaloa that were allegedly controlled by the father and son and made the world’s largest ever fentanyl seizure, which totaled more than 3,300 pounds of the ultra-potent drug.—
Alex Riggins,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
6 Jan. 2026
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Its mighty 12-cylinder heart is mounted transversely, stretching side-to-side across the chassis instead of the front-to-back layout usually used with engines of more than four cylinders.—
Will Sabel Courtney,
Robb Report,
6 Nov. 2025
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All the better to emphasize Lawrence creating the sensation that someone’s grip on reality getting mighty slippery.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
6 Nov. 2025
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The video opens with Ryder lounging on a plastic lounge chair, unfazed, while her muscular partner paces nearby, yelling into his phone.—
Tomás Mier,
Rolling Stone,
5 Jan. 2026
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Research shows that muscular strength has a direct impact on your stress response and mental health, as well as cardiovascular and metabolic risk factors.—
Emma Loewe,
Outside,
1 Jan. 2026
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“Forcible.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/forcible. Accessed 10 Jan. 2026.
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