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to make timid or fearful by or as if by threats
they would often browbeat the younger child until he cried
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Adjective
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For instance, kids scored lower on standardized tests in schools with a lot of bullying than kids in schools with effective anti-bullying programs.—
Sherri Gordon,
Parents,
31 July 2024 -
The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham has reached out about providing funding for mental health and anti-bullying programs, and the board has also received offers from external agencies to help with their threat assessment protocol, DeShazo said.—
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4 Oct. 2022
Noun
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The ban was meant to address concerns about the data collection, influence and even coercion, and privacy issues.—
John Brandon,
Forbes,
17 Jan. 2025
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There are no secret cameras, no orgies, no other celebrities involved, no underground tunnels, no minors, and not so much as a hint of coercion or violence.—
KiMi Robinson,
USA TODAY,
15 Jan. 2025
Verb
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This new era of AI can feel intimidating for the limited, human life forms that created it.—
Marc Zao-Sanders,
Harvard Business Review,
17 Dec. 2024
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Only six years older than Crystal, the comedian still found Scorsese intimidating.—
Lester Fabian Brathwaite,
EW.com,
16 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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From afar, there’s certainly something of the guru or the ascetic about Martin, something highly therapized and slightly otherworldly.—
Alex Morris,
Rolling Stone,
19 Dec. 2024
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Growing vegetables and seemingly delighted with the ascetic life, Orwell based himself in a bedroom of Barnhill to consider his life’s purpose and to write the most powerful and disturbing novel of the twentieth century, 1984.—
Rob Crossan,
JSTOR Daily,
15 Nov. 2024
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Not everybody goes through this intense amount of pressure, and on such a scale and in such a spotlight.—
Tomás Mier,
Rolling Stone,
27 Jan. 2025
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Amid pressure from a June 8-10, 2021, Organization of American States mission on the deteriorating political climate in Haiti, Moïse and his supporters knew the political ship was sinking.—
Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
26 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Known for his unflinching explorations of youth culture, addiction, and rebellion, Clark first gained recognition with Tulsa, a book of photography documenting teenage drug use and disaffected lifestyles in his hometown.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
13 Jan. 2025
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Rasoulof’s career has been marked by his unflinching focus on the social and political struggles within Iran.—
Jamie Lang,
Variety,
3 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Sadat and Israel’s Menachem Begin were obstinate, colorful negotiators.—
Arthur House,
Hartford Courant,
30 Dec. 2024
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The Founding generation also worried that older men were more inflexible, obstinate, uninterested in change, and stuck in their ways—all leadership qualities at odds with the experimentation needed for representative government.—
Rebecca Brannon / Made by History,
TIME,
3 July 2024
Noun
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What about the shrill speculations that nefarious Trumpian arm-twisting was involved which pressured Netanyahu to comply?—
Melik Kaylan,
Forbes,
20 Jan. 2025
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Israel, often skeptical of UN solutions, would likely need some convincing to back a trusteeship, up to and including the type of U.S. arm-twisting seen recently over weapons shipments.—
Lloyd Axworthy,
Foreign Affairs,
15 May 2024
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“Browbeating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/browbeating. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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