unwilled

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unwilled
Adjective
  • The siblings go through old pictures, watch old Super 8 footage and even read to each other from surprisingly graphic letters between their parents, expressing involuntary waves of horror and pride at how horny Jerry and Anne were for each other.
    Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Trump released an executive order in July encouraging states to expand involuntary commitment laws — a legal process forcing people considered a danger to themselves or others into inpatient psychiatric care.
    Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Money, 30 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Traffic stops represent the most common nonvoluntary interaction between citizens and police officers in the U.S.
    Derek Epp, The Conversation, 3 Feb. 2023
  • Of the 59 CEOs who departed S&P 500 firms last year, 30.5% were let go on a nonvoluntary basis, up from 22.1% in 2017, according to the Conference Board's 2019 CEO Succession Practices report.
    Fortune, Fortune, 6 Nov. 2019
Adjective
  • Winters writes that this initial system of coerced labor didn’t go very well for the elites.
    Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Like Netflix's popular 2015 docuseries Making a Murderer, The Yogurt Shop Murders explores unethical interrogation tactics used by law enforcement and questions of coerced confessions.
    EW.com, EW.com, 5 Aug. 2025
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“Unwilled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unwilled. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.

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