arm-twist

verb

Definition of arm-twistnext
as in to intimidate

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  1. intimidate
  2. browbeat
  3. bully
  4. threaten
  5. cow
  6. terrorize
  7. coerce
  8. bulldoze
Verb
  • Take risks and try new things, even if the risks are intimidating.
    Brian Slipka, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
  • No standard-issue heartthrob, Law began his career as a veritable emblem of intimidating, unattainable, sometimes self-sabotaging male beauty.
    Guy Lodge, Variety, 12 Dec. 2024
Definition of intimidate
Verb
  • If segregating people by race and browbeating them about the evil ways of their race is not racial harassment, then what is? Conservatives are pushing back against anti-white race discrimination.
    Thomas F. Powers, National Review, 1 Dec. 2024
  • During his first term, Trump often used threats such as high tariffs to browbeat America’s allies into concessions.
    Don Lee, Los Angeles Times, 26 Nov. 2024
Definition of browbeat
Verb
  • Buzbee, in return, has accused Carter of a campaign of harassment and bullying against him, his firm and his family.
    Sean O'Driscoll, Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2024
  • The series stars Purnell (Yellowjackets, Sweetbitter) as Rhiannon Lewis, a meek newspaper-office receptionist who was mercilessly bullied in high school.
    Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 3 Dec. 2024
Definition of bully
Verb
  • Hurricane Rafael threatened Gulf Coast refineries and so kept prices higher than normal, AAA said.
    Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 11 Dec. 2024
  • And rising sea levels threaten the many multimillion-dollar homes that overlook the ocean.
    Corina Knoll, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2024
Definition of threaten
Verb
  • Gingrich praised Johnson for not being cowed by the hard-right Republicans seeking to remove him from office, and instead reaching into his own deep well of beliefs as a Ronald Reagan-era Republican with an expansive view of the role of U.S., its allies and his own speakership to make a decision.
    Lisa Mascaro, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Apr. 2024
  • The decisions by the Times and the Post have raised fears that media publishers, preparing for the possibility of a second Trump Administration, are being cowed by him.
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2024
Definition of cow
Verb
  • Students and staff at the elementary school have been terrorized by the conduct that Sunrise's operations facilitate.
    Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 28 Nov. 2024
  • The last time Donald Trump was president, rumors of immigration raids terrorized the Oregon community where Gustavo Balderas was the school superintendent.
    Bianca Vázquez Toness, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2024
Definition of terrorize
Verb
  • Chief Critic Amazon spokesperson Kelly Nantel criticized the Teamsters in a statement shared with Forbes, and accused the group of threatening, intimidating, and attempting to coerce Amazon employees to join them.
    Siladitya Ray, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
  • And that, according to the district attorney, is an attempt to coerce or influence the public or its citizenry or an industry towards change, which is included in the terrorism charge.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 18 Dec. 2024
Definition of coerce
Verb
  • Video footage of the game on the recruiting website Hudl shows IMG’s enormous defensive linemen bulldozing Kurtz play after play.
    Kenny Jacoby, USA TODAY, 12 Dec. 2024
  • Their original, 2,100-square-foot UCF location was bulldozed for student apartments back in 2016, then reopened on University six months later in double the space with triple the business.
    Amy Drew Thompson, Orlando Sentinel, 4 Dec. 2024
Definition of bulldoze
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