as in forced
to cause (a person) to give in to pressure
always manages to sandbag her sister into joining her in these foolish schemes
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Recent Examples of sandbagged
Ant-Man says the Wolves sandbagged the regular season.
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Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 17 Apr. 2026
These are not ideal circumstances by any means, after being sandbagged by the Justice Department, but trial continues.
—Dana Taylor, USA Today, 27 Mar. 2026
In Nett’s case, announce and then roll back announcements of a new album that’s been prone to leaks and sandbagged by indecision.
—Hattie Lindert, Pitchfork, 13 Mar. 2026
The top three automakers are badly losing a race for the future to BYD and other Chinese electric vehicle companies — their big investments in EVs having been sandbagged by this year’s about-face from supportive government policies to deliberately destructive ones.
—The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2025
Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 17 Apr. 2026
These are not ideal circumstances by any means, after being sandbagged by the Justice Department, but trial continues.
—Dana Taylor, USA Today, 27 Mar. 2026
In Nett’s case, announce and then roll back announcements of a new album that’s been prone to leaks and sandbagged by indecision.
—Hattie Lindert, Pitchfork, 13 Mar. 2026
The top three automakers are badly losing a race for the future to BYD and other Chinese electric vehicle companies — their big investments in EVs having been sandbagged by this year’s about-face from supportive government policies to deliberately destructive ones.
—The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sandbagged
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Extreme heat and dry, windy conditions fueled several wildfires in the West on Sunday, including an uncontained blaze in Utah that forced the evacuation of a small town southwest of Salt Lake City.—
Valerie Gonzalez,
Los Angeles Times,
22 June 2026
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In 1976, the Bicentennial followed the traumas of the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal that had forced President Richard Nixon's resignation.—
Susan Page,
USA Today,
22 June 2026
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But the judges said Thursday there was no evidence of torture and that investigators did not appear to have coerced the confessions.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
11 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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Iranian state television duly presented the agreement as proof that Iran had compelled America to accept its conditions, which helps explain the alarm in Israel and among Washington's hawks.—
Hamidreza Azizi,
Time,
19 June 2026
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In defense of the players, San Francisco Archdiocese spokesman Peter Marlow stated that people of faith should not be compelled to suppress their convictions in public life.—
Peter Chawaga,
Forbes.com,
19 June 2026
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The landlord would go back to paying the full amount of their property-tax bill but would no longer be obliged to keep the apartments rent-stabilized — after taking care of a few essential steps along the way.—
Olivia Bensimon,
Curbed,
17 June 2026
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Digital services are also obliged to implement an age verification mechanism that goes beyond self-declaration that the user is over 18 to protect them from accessing inappropriate or prohibited material.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
15 June 2026
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Musicians aren’t obligated to do anything political as part of the job, and plenty of audiences appreciate when artists don’t preach partisan points of view.—
Marissa R. Moss,
Rolling Stone,
16 June 2026
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Ziller plans to go to the State Budget Committee on Thursday to ask for a series of payments to which the state is obligated, including $3 million for the Gary blight elimination program.—
Doug Ross,
Chicago Tribune,
16 June 2026
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In the suit — which names CBS TV Studios, Matlock EPs Nicki Renna and Jeffrey Lieber as defendants, along with Urman — Lowe says he was pressured to take a dog of the showrunner’s with the implication that his job depended on it.—
Dominic Patten,
Deadline,
17 June 2026
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In that imperative, distinctions between mediums and genres blur as we are pressured to translate our cultural production into that form of direct address.—
Shanti Escalante-De Mattei,
ARTnews.com,
16 June 2026
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