unwilled

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for unwilled
Adjective
  • In Milwaukee County, law enforcement officers are the only people who can initiate an emergency mental health detention and send someone to be evaluated for a possible involuntary hospital stay.
    David Clarey, jsonline.com, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Selecting a show may result in the involuntary viewing of multiple, in-line trailers.
    Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 23 Oct. 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
  • Prosecutors retried one of the men, John Kogut – who had made a coerced confession to the murder – but he was acquitted.
    Lauren del Valle, CNN Money, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Winters writes that this initial system of coerced labor didn’t go very well for the elites.
    Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 7 Aug. 2025
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“Unwilled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unwilled. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.

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