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as in forced
to cause (a person) to give in to pressure
he was muscled out of command by his opponents at military headquarters
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Recent Examples of muscled
Trailing 42-41, DeLand coach Rick Darlington opted to go for the win, and Moore muscled into the end zone on a two-point conversion for the victory 43-42.
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Chris Hays, The Orlando Sentinel, 23 May 2026
Bowen wasn’t the only Chihuahua who muscled up on Friday.
—Jeff Sanders, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 May 2026
Its claws were large, and its arms were well-muscled.
—Julia Gomez, USA Today, 20 May 2026
Despite the contact, Clark still muscled the ball into the basket and then flexed toward the crowd.
—James Boyd, New York Times, 18 May 2026
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Chris Hays, The Orlando Sentinel, 23 May 2026
Bowen wasn’t the only Chihuahua who muscled up on Friday.
—Jeff Sanders, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 May 2026
Its claws were large, and its arms were well-muscled.
—Julia Gomez, USA Today, 20 May 2026
Despite the contact, Clark still muscled the ball into the basket and then flexed toward the crowd.
—James Boyd, New York Times, 18 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for muscled
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The charging documents showed that Lunn restrained the victim in a bear hug, pinning her arms to her sides, and forced her to the ground behind a quad bench in an overgrown garden area.—
CBS Baltimore Staff,
CBS News,
7 June 2026
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The disparity has forced Goldman into the awkward position of defending a seat he’s held for two terms by running, at least in part, as the outsider.—
Russell Berman,
The Atlantic,
7 June 2026
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The game finished 1-0 but FIFA ordered the whole match to be replayed (Uzbekistan pushed for an automatic 3-0 win, or at the very least to restart play from the 38th minute, when the penalty incident occurred, and with them a goal up).—
Tim Spiers,
New York Times,
10 June 2026
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Walz pushed back against claims during a Capitol Hill hearing in March.—
Conor Wight,
CBS News,
9 June 2026
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Lured by the promise of well-paying jobs, hundreds of thousands of people like them have been coerced into engaging in scams such as posing as women online, cultivating intimate relationships with foreigners to defraud them of their savings.—
Kayla Hayempour,
NBC news,
8 June 2026
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In the state of Arkansas, lawmakers worked across the aisle on a bold bill that categorizes kids recruited into gangs and coerced into committing crimes as victims.—
Ana Zamora,
Time,
3 June 2026
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Freddie Freeman squeezed one inside the left-field foul pole in the first inning, his fourth home run in nine games (after hitting just one in the previous 35 games).—
Bill Plunkett,
Oc Register,
30 May 2026
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The story of America’s lopsided home prices has often been pinned on the wealthy remote workers who squeezed home supply in the pandemic’s early days.—
Tristan Bove,
Fortune,
29 May 2026
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As imperial forces traversed continents, the meanings and uses of these arrivals—whether people, plants, or ideologies— were actively negotiated and reshaped by the societies and environments compelled to contend with them.—
Sophia Rey,
JSTOR Daily,
28 May 2026
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Large pharmaceutical companies are structurally compelled to acquire.—
Marc Cooper,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2026
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And not only is the government legally obligated to allow for comments on the rule, they are also obliged to respond.—
Chelsea Gohd,
Space.com,
9 June 2026
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His status as the game’s best secure, Messi lifted the trophy in a bisht that had been placed upon him — obliged to share his greatest triumph with the geopolitical forces that had brought the World Cup to the Middle East for the first time.—
Will Jeanes,
New York Times,
5 June 2026
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And not only is the government legally obligated to allow for comments on the rule, they are also obliged to respond.—
Chelsea Gohd,
Space.com,
9 June 2026
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The motion to dismiss, filed in March, argued that Redd wasn’t contractually obligated to perform.—
Melissa Goldin,
Los Angeles Times,
7 June 2026
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By 1986, this legal jeopardy drove all but one vaccine manufacturer out of the market, with that last survivor poised to abandon vaccines in the US as well.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 June 2026
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Evidence shows planned meeting Prosecutors say cell phone geolocation and call records showed Campbell left his home in Anson and drove about 30 minutes to an Abilene hotel to meet the minors.—
Doug Myers,
CBS News,
11 June 2026
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“Muscled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/muscled. Accessed 11 Jun. 2026.
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