How to Use coercion in a Sentence

coercion

noun
  • But there’s a sort of coercion in the screenplay all the same.
    Helen Shaw, Vulture, 13 Feb. 2021
  • What Verastigui and many others across the right stand for is not child protection, but control and coercion.
    Melissa Gira Grant, The New Republic, 16 Feb. 2021
  • Labor trafficking involves employees who are forced to work through coercion, such as violence, threats and fraud.
    David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Feb. 2021
  • Just as with girls and women, violation of men and boys can involve physical force or emotional coercion.
    Emma Brown, Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2021
  • In other words, this isn’t censorship, but Twitter is dealing with fundamental issues of power and coercion.
    Jacob Silverman, The New Republic, 14 Jan. 2021
  • Mayorga's lawsuit claims conspiracy, defamation, breach of contract, coercion and fraud and seeks to void the 2010 deal.
    Ken Ritter, Star Tribune, 8 Feb. 2021
  • The former and future president is a strong believer in using coercion, such as economic sanctions, to pressure other actors.
    Daniel W. Drezner, Foreign Affairs, 12 Nov. 2024
  • In fact, it could be considered coercion of political activity.
    Sarah Midkiff, refinery29.com, 6 Jan. 2021
  • The girls are shook — first by the coercion in the tent, and then by the boy with cancer’s sister, who is ready to beat ass.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 8 Dec. 2021
  • Even Stephanie Clifford, aka Stormy Daniels, is calling out the coercion.
    Megan Thiele Strong, New York Daily News, 7 July 2024
  • Japan is hosting the G-7 summit this month, and at the top of its agenda is economic coercion.
    The Editorial Board, wsj.com, 14 May 2023
  • Take the Pressure Off Any kind of coercion to eat food is the parental behavior experts object to most.
    Lydia Denworth, Parents, 3 Sep. 2024
  • Real harm happened when the state used its powers of coercion in pursuit of this aim.
    Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2024
  • When should guidance be replaced by the full power of state coercion?
    Dan Hannan, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 14 June 2024
  • As we have again been horribly reminded, the use of force and coercion to this end does have a place in the 21st century.
    Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 27 Feb. 2022
  • Lance Leipold wasn’t going to going to brag on that win without a little coercion.
    Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 14 July 2022
  • He was expected to return to court again on Sept. 21 and receive a sentence of 30 days in jail and five years of probation for the coercion charge.
    Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 23 Sep. 2022
  • And some of that coercion has been directed against our allies.
    Jamie McIntyre, Washington Examiner, 8 Mar. 2021
  • There are times when peer pressure does involve coercion and when kids will need refusal skills.
    Phyllis Fagell, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2023
  • So that was an attempt essentially to use subterfuge and trickery and coercion to overthrow the will of the people.
    NBC News, 19 June 2022
  • The treaty was signed by the Lakota under coercion, which included threats of cannon fire and the withholding of food rations.
    Hannah Fish, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Even forms of economic coercion are being put in place.
    Ben Westcott and Eric Cheung, CNN, 15 Oct. 2021
  • Whether through coercion or diplomatic carrots, Biden knows the US may simply lack the leverage to change Putin's zero-sum game.
    Stephen Collinson, CNN, 15 June 2021
  • Anything less than this is coercion, and coerced consent is no consent at all.
    WIRED, 10 Aug. 2023
  • After some further coercion and bear calls, the mother eventually climbed out of the drain.
    Mike Mavredakis, Hartford Courant, 4 Aug. 2022
  • Some OpenAI employees have rejected the idea that there was any coercion to sign the letter.
    Nitasha Tiku, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2023
  • The governments knew full well that without the protection of the U.S. they would be exposed to Soviet coercion.
    CBS News, 29 June 2022
  • But the thing that concerns me the most is the potential for North Korea to take the lesson that nuclear threats and nuclear coercion will lead to restraint on the part of the U.S. and its allies.
    CBS News, 9 Nov. 2022
  • But for the farmers in Madou township, the impact of China’s economic coercion has already been felt.
    Gladys Tsai, CNN, 22 Aug. 2022
  • In the world economy, for example, high-trust societies enjoy competitive advantages over those that must coordinate activities through coercion or regulation.
    Serge Lucio, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2024

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