as in forced
to cause (a person) to give in to pressure
his father pressured him to go out for the swim team
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Recent Examples of pressured
Scott has blitzed on 36 plays and has pressured the quarterback on eight of them.
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Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 24 Oct. 2025
Trump initially pressured Ukraine to make concessions and suggested territorial swaps with Russia.
—MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
Health care workers must never be pressured to identify patients based on nationality or immigration status.
—Kimberly Galindo, Mercury News, 22 Oct. 2025
But the Venezuelan government, for reasons that remain unclear, appears to have pressured them to take down their accounts.
—Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2025
However, the residential housing market remains significantly challenged, pressured by short supply, low affordability, and stretched consumers.
—Michael Khouw, CNBC, 20 Oct. 2025
The confederacy of tribes was pressured into ceding lands to the state of New York, and further displaced by ensuing frontier settlement.
—Matthew Smith, The Conversation, 20 Oct. 2025
Meanwhile, worries about oversupply have pressured the oil market, with the price of Brent and WTI both at near five-month lows – potentially easing the inflation burden for Americans, if gas prices follow oil prices lower.
—David Goldman, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 2025
Both countries pressured Hamas to accept the peace plan.
—Michele Chabin, The Washington Examiner, 17 Oct. 2025
Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 24 Oct. 2025
Trump initially pressured Ukraine to make concessions and suggested territorial swaps with Russia.
—MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
Health care workers must never be pressured to identify patients based on nationality or immigration status.
—Kimberly Galindo, Mercury News, 22 Oct. 2025
But the Venezuelan government, for reasons that remain unclear, appears to have pressured them to take down their accounts.
—Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2025
However, the residential housing market remains significantly challenged, pressured by short supply, low affordability, and stretched consumers.
—Michael Khouw, CNBC, 20 Oct. 2025
The confederacy of tribes was pressured into ceding lands to the state of New York, and further displaced by ensuing frontier settlement.
—Matthew Smith, The Conversation, 20 Oct. 2025
Meanwhile, worries about oversupply have pressured the oil market, with the price of Brent and WTI both at near five-month lows – potentially easing the inflation burden for Americans, if gas prices follow oil prices lower.
—David Goldman, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 2025
Both countries pressured Hamas to accept the peace plan.
—Michele Chabin, The Washington Examiner, 17 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pressured
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The Tunnels story is that Chinese immigrants built a network of tunnels under the city because they were forced to live underground; the tunnels were then used by gangsters and bootleggers, including Al Capone.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
20 Oct. 2025
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Delta said the disruption forced it to cancel more than 5,000 flights and cost it more than $500 million in revenue and compensation for passengers, among other expenses.—
Leslie Josephs,
CNBC,
20 Oct. 2025
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More military clashes occurred in 1503 and 1504, and these saw numerous chiefs captured, assigned to Spanish settlers, and compelled to labor in the construction of towns.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Oct. 2025
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Some even felt compelled to try the handshake themselves.—
Daniella Gray,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Oct. 2025
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The retail giant agreed to the settlement to resolve an antitrust lawsuit the FTC filed in 2023 where federal officials alleged Amazon coerced millions of consumers into enrolling in Prime subscriptions and then made those agreements extremely difficult to cancel.—
Paige Moore,
AZCentral.com,
21 Oct. 2025
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Both men met their victims online and coerced them to produce the material using threats and blackmail, according to the news release.—
Lillie Davidson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
15 Oct. 2025
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After the Acting City Attorney Christopher Creech explained that the city manager and the city attorney are obligated to share their opinion about a potential violation of code, Barbadillo suggested that both the city manager and the city attorney should face a performance evaluation.—
Luis Melecio-Zambrano,
Mercury News,
23 Oct. 2025
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Amtrak, often regarded as an albatross around taxpayers’ necks, lost more—about $705 million—but serves more than 500 stops, including many that a private enterprise would never bother with and that a public one is obligated to serve.—
Kaitlyn Tiffany,
The Atlantic,
22 Oct. 2025
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Amazon has previously told Sourcing Journal that, at this juncture, it has not been legally obliged to serve as a joint employer for the workers the Teamsters have brought issues over.—
Meghan Hall,
Sourcing Journal,
24 Oct. 2025
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Democratic State Senator Ben Allen, who sponsored the bill, and California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara initially pushed for insurers to be obliged to pay out 100 percent of an owner’s personal property coverage limit, but the bill was amended after pushback from the industry.—
Giulia Carbonaro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 Oct. 2025
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“Pressured.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pressured. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.
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