1
: compelled by force or necessity : involuntary
a forced landing
2
: done or produced with effort, exertion, or pressure
a forced laugh
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forced payment of membership dues
wasn't thrilled with the suggestion and so responded with a forced smile
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Carter burgeoned into a backfield menace, securing career-highs in tackles for loss (12), pass deflections (6) and quarterback hits (16) while piling on 4.5 sacks and two forced fumbles.
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Brooks Kubena, The Athletic, 3 Jan. 2025
The wealth from coffee and sugar attained by the white ruling class depended on the forced labor of 500,000 enslaved people.
—Nyya Toussaint / Made By History, TIME, 31 Dec. 2024
If so, that will require buying Maye time against edge-rushers Gregory Rousseau and A.J. Epenesa, who have combined for 12.5 sacks, 32 QB hits and four forced fumbles this year.
—Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 22 Dec. 2024
Amid student accusations of forced and unpaid labor at Olivet University, which is headquartered in the high-desert town of Anza, Calif., school leaders tried to protect the university’s fate against state regulators’ attempts to revoke its license.
—Colleen Shalby, Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2024
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Brooks Kubena, The Athletic, 3 Jan. 2025
The wealth from coffee and sugar attained by the white ruling class depended on the forced labor of 500,000 enslaved people.
—Nyya Toussaint / Made By History, TIME, 31 Dec. 2024
If so, that will require buying Maye time against edge-rushers Gregory Rousseau and A.J. Epenesa, who have combined for 12.5 sacks, 32 QB hits and four forced fumbles this year.
—Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 22 Dec. 2024
Amid student accusations of forced and unpaid labor at Olivet University, which is headquartered in the high-desert town of Anza, Calif., school leaders tried to protect the university’s fate against state regulators’ attempts to revoke its license.
—Colleen Shalby, Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2024
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forced
adjective
ˈfō(ə)rst 
ˈfȯ(ə)rst
1
: caused or brought about by force or necessity : involuntary
made a forced landing
2
: done or produced with effort
a forced laugh
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