as in to intimidate
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For the uninitiated, dragon fruit can be intimidating.—
Karla Walsh,
Better Homes & Gardens,
25 Jan. 2025 -
Frame Criticisms Constructively Delivering critical feedback or raising concerns can be intimidating, but CEOs value honesty when it’s delivered thoughtfully.—
Chiara Alzati,
Forbes,
22 Jan. 2025
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Recent comments by Trump and former President Barack Obama felt like browbeating.—
David Plazas,
The Tennessean,
16 Oct. 2024
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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
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Following his father's death, Diddy and his mother were left with money that afforded them a lifestyle unlike their peers, and Diddy was often bullied by his peers for being a rich kid in class.—
Tracy Wright,
Fox News,
19 Jan. 2025
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The first of those will identify what bullying is and how students can interrupt it.—
Noah Lyons,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
18 Jan. 2025
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The vice president would not have been threatened with a hanging.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
22 Jan. 2025
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Currently, Trump is threatening a 10% across-the-board tariff on Chinese goods imported to the US and 25% tariffs on Mexican and Canadian goods, come February 1.—
Elisabeth Buchwald,
CNN,
22 Jan. 2025
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Key to this is Torres as Eunice, a woman who refuses to be defined by grief or cowed by police intimidation, and her determination to keep her family together is especially inspirational in today’s uncertain world, where happiness is fast becoming an act of rebellion in itself.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
20 Dec. 2024
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Showing up at that dinner uninvited is a power play intended to cow both other oligarchs and Trump.—
Gord Magill,
Newsweek,
21 Dec. 2024
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Joining the ranks of those who terrorize the population seemed to be their only viable chance at security and prosperity.—
Carlos Aguilar,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Jan. 2025
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Dictatorial control is founded on terror, but algorithms cannot be terrorized.—
Yuval Noah Harari,
WIRED,
3 Jan. 2025
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But a divided panel of appeals court judges said the parents hadn’t shown that they or their children had been coerced to believe or act contrary to their religious views.—
Maureen Groppe,
USA TODAY,
17 Jan. 2025
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In early 2018, the Kansas Court of Appeals ruled that Samuels had coerced McCool into letting the deputy sheriff search his apartment and vacated the convictions.—
Jonathan Shorman,
Kansas City Star,
16 Jan. 2025
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The Jets’ fourth-round pick in 2024 is also exceeding expectations, bulldozing his way to danger areas while playing a tremendous role in Niagara’s franchise turnaround.—
Murat Ates,
The Athletic,
24 Jan. 2025
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At the same time, a transit initiative called the Addis Ababa Corridor Project was bulldozing neighborhoods in order to reduce congestion by creating wider streets and dedicated bus lanes.—
Samuel Getachew,
The Christian Science Monitor,
6 Jan. 2025
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