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Recent Examples of uncoerced The great irony in Michael Flynn’s statement and in the arguments for Christian nationalism is that religion has flourished in America as nowhere else precisely because faith is uncoerced. Seth Liss, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2021 It’s all leading questions or George’s uncoerced and truthful answers. James Ellroy, Vanities, 7 Oct. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for uncoerced
Adjective
  • What to Know Several companies have issued voluntary recalls of shrimp products suspected of possible Cs-137 contamination.
    Matt Cannon, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Oct. 2025
  • What’s desperately needed, Sisti said, are comprehensive investments in mental health — Housing First programs, funding to build up a mental health care workforce, and an easily accessible and coordinated system of voluntary treatment that prevents people from deteriorating on the streets.
    Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Money, 30 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Within the past couple of years, the group has become a part of Arrowhead Kingdom, an all-volunteer national network of Chiefs fan groups.
    Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 8 Feb. 2023
  • That’s noteworthy for a show based at a high-school auditorium in Litchfield and run by a staff that is almost entirely volunteer, including the show’s star and its producer.
    Susan Dunne, Hartford Courant, 18 Aug. 2022
Adjective
  • Democrats and Republicans in Congress have been playing the blame game this week, accusing the other of not being willing to negotiate.
    Kate Wolffe, Sacbee.com, 3 Oct. 2025
  • One can make the case that many voters are also willing to be selective in their vision—the right’s defense of free speech gathered steam despite the Republican Party suffering from even more seemingly intractable internal contradictions on the issue.
    Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2025

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“Uncoerced.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uncoerced. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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