Recent Examples on the WebTo stop is to die, or, worse, to be force-fed a clip of Ricky Gervais saying words.—Evan Waite, The New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2024 Boyd and her cohorts were there to document their dispersal, compiling data while force-feeding wood stoves to heat drafty cabins in subzero winters.—Ben Long, The Denver Post, 12 Sep. 2024 The Bills won’t be force-feeding the humble Shakir.—Bill Reinhard, New York Daily News, 11 Aug. 2024 During her previous 10-month trial at Manchester Crown Court in 2022 and 2023, prosecutors accused Letby of force-feeding infants' milk, poisoning some with insulin and injecting others with air.—Kirsty Hatcher, Peoplemag, 5 July 2024 The woman is also accused of force-feeding some children and carrying one child upside down by the ankle while strapped to a chair, WTAE reported.—Lauren Liebhaber, Miami Herald, 3 July 2024 Conservative orthodoxy at the national level holds that parents must be given an out from a failing public education system that force-feeds children progressive fads.—Alec MacGillis, ProPublica, 1 July 2024 During her 10-month trial in Manchester Crown Court, prosecutors accused her of force-feeding infants’ milk, poisoning some with insulin and injecting others with air.—Christine Pelisek, Peoplemag, 11 June 2024 See George Wallace force-feeding Mulaney very vanilla cake with a giant silver spoon and crossing everyone’s boundaries, minus Richard Kind’s (true love).—Vulture Staff, Vulture, 13 May 2024
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