as in to intimidate
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for arm-twist
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Mushrooms are a delicious addition to recipes, but preparing them for a dish can be intimidating.—
Kait Hanson,
Southern Living,
25 Mar. 2025 -
France’s bureaucracy can be intimidating, especially for those who don’t speak French.—
CNN.com,
Mercury News,
24 Mar. 2025
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Meanwhile, Trump has his own social media and has browbeaten others, notably Facebook, into forsaking fact-checking.—
Orlando Sentinel and South Florida Sun Sentinel Editorial Boards,
Orlando Sentinel,
14 Mar. 2025
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In the Legislature, the hard feelings with DeSantis might linger after years of being browbeaten into passing his agendas.—
Lawrence Mower,
Miami Herald,
28 Feb. 2025
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Once back, Jérémie can’t bear to leave, and Vincent, resentful of the intruder in his mother’s house, tries to bully him out.—
Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
21 Mar. 2025
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Earlier this month, a 13-year-old girl from Northern Kentucky took her own life after years of being bullied.—
Sarah Scott,
Parents,
19 Mar. 2025
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This was not the first time Alvarez and Almada had combined to threaten Uruguay, though.—
Anantaajith Raghuraman,
The Athletic,
23 Mar. 2025
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Shortly before his death, A.B. confronted Lilly in his office and threatened to expose her for misappropriating funds, illegally securing contracts, trading favors with different vendors and sneaking individuals into the White House.—
Max Gao,
Variety,
23 Mar. 2025
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Until then, amplifying Putin’s nuclear threats, or appearing to be cowed by them, erodes that deterrence.—
Anthony Lake,
Chicago Tribune,
17 Mar. 2025
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McConnell is 82 and not running for reelection, whereas his colleagues are cowed that any opposition to the MAGA agenda, no matter how damaging this would be to the country, would harm their reelection chances.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
16 Feb. 2025
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Following a mysterious suicide of one of its students, a small town high school is terrorized by a website that seems to know all their intimate secrets.—
Marta Balaga,
Variety,
21 Mar. 2025
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Such special operations reduce the enemy's ability to terrorize Ukrainian cities with missile strikes.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
20 Mar. 2025
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Read more Iraq The World's Selective Outrage—Alawite Massacres in Syria Deserve Our Attention | Opinion The Asayish, Kurdistan's official security organization, regularly targets Assyrians in the Nahla Valley, coercing them to sign fake concessions.—
David Faris,
Newsweek,
17 Mar. 2025
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These tariffs were originally intended to pressure Mexico to step up immigration enforcement at the U.S. border, and to coerce all three countries into doing more to limit illicit fentanyl trafficking into the United States.—
Kevin Breuninger,
CNBC,
17 Mar. 2025
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The group is racing to remove and preserve thousands of vintage and historically significant tiles from the Eaton fire burn zone before the properties are bulldozed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.—
Laura J. Nelson,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Mar. 2025
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When neighborhoods are bulldozed, no one feels a sense of belonging or ownership.—
Buffy Gorrilla,
NPR,
28 Feb. 2025
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“Arm-twist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/arm-twist. Accessed 1 Apr. 2025.
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