PRESSURED Synonyms: 44 Similar and Opposite Words

pressured

verb

past tense of pressure

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 On his last two drives, he was pressured into oblivion, forced to throw off-balance once and crumpled to the ground one other time. — Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 30 Oct. 2026 Seattle pressured Mahomes on more than half of his dropbacks, and with receivers Rashee Rice (hamstring/knee) and Tyquan Thornton (ankle) sidelined, the Chiefs had no answer. — Kansas City Star, 29 Oct. 2026 Some companies are seeking out more natural versions of their products, pressured by lawmakers and the vocal segment of customers who have railed against additives and artificial ingredients in foods. — Emily Heil, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2026 Consumers across the country have described to CBS California Investigates, and in hundreds of online reviews, their unpleasant experiences at the stores, alleging they were pressured to make purchases worth thousands of dollars. — Amy Corral, CBS News, 27 Oct. 2026 The union, and congressional allies such as Brown, pressured the Administration to insure that the new plants became unionized. — Dan Kaufman, New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2026 Students were randomly assigned to the roles of guards or inmates, with the guards pressured to maintain order by any means necessary. — Marlow Stern, Variety, 25 Oct. 2026 And those rates — paired with high government spending and concerns over mounting deficits — have pressured the bond market, pushing 10-year Treasury yields to levels not seen since the early 2000s. — Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2026 Springsteen and Scott confessed during police questioning but recanted before trial, saying investigators pressured them into giving false statements. — Leigh Egan, FOXNews.com, 24 Oct. 2026

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Earlier this fall, a deadlocked jury in the Lindsay Clancy murder case forced the judge to declare a mistrial.

— Anja Aronowsky Cronberg, New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2026
CoreWeave, the biggest of the group, has seen the spread on its credit default swaps soar past 11%, as investors are forced to pay up for insurance against default.

— Kif Leswing,Isabel O'Brien, CNBC, 24 Oct. 2026

Definition of forced

Verb

Doncic said there has always been something in him that compelled him to establish connections with fans.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2026
From the classic ‘Whodunit’ style to thrilling neonoirs, mystery novels have compelled readers to solve cases alongside detectives like Hercule Poirot.

— Theara Coleman, TheWeek, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of compelled

Verb

During a retrial in 2019, one of the victims and a co-defendant testified that their previous testimony implicating Bennett was coerced by a then-homicide detective.

— CBS Philadelphia, CBS News, 28 Oct. 2026
Her confession to murdering her 2-year-old daughter was coerced, and the district attorney who prosecuted her case was later convicted of bribery, extortion and other crimes.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of coerced

Verb

They’re being employed, and there are certain things that your employer’s obligated to do that your friends or family might not be.

— Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 28 Oct. 2026
SpaceX is contractually obligated to continue Falcon 9 flights for NASA’s International Space Station crew rotations and other national security payloads.

— Mojtaba Akhavan-Tafti, The Conversation, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of obligated

Verb

Returning to the table, Walzer said that a legal scholar had recently used the jus ex bello doctrine in an op-ed to argue that the war had become so costly to Ukrainians that their government was now obliged to make concessions to stop the fighting.

— Jordi Graupera, New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2026
That should come as no surprise; NASA is, after all, part of the executive branch, and the agency is obliged to abide by executive orders.

— Josh Dinner, Space.com, 16 Oct. 2026