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as in intimidating
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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for browbeating
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
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The federal charge is attempted coercion and enticement of a minor to engage in prostitution.—
Compiled by Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports,
arkansasonline.com,
20 Mar. 2025
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He was sentenced to life on the coercion and enticement charge, plus received additional concurrent prison time on the other charges, prosecutors said.—
Sara Schilling,
Sacramento Bee,
19 Mar. 2025
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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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While Mathu is an ascetic loner, Malby was a hedonistic womanizer.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
20 Feb. 2025
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By the 18th century, the 13 major ascetic akharas, or sects of Hindu priests, played a central role in Kumbh Mela rituals.—
Aakash Hassan,
The Christian Science Monitor,
29 Jan. 2025
Noun
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There would be fan pressure for the young quarterback to play if Prescott struggled.—
Mark Davis,
Newsweek,
16 Mar. 2025
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At a key hearing on March 6, 2023, Ricco says, Messiah broke down from the pressure and began crying.—
Nicholas Williams,
New York Daily News,
16 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Though the ceremony didn't need to be made any more groundbreaking, considering the impact of Best Picture winner Gentleman's Agreement, which tackled anti-Semitism in new and unflinching ways.—
James Mercadante,
EW.com,
1 Mar. 2025
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With music by Anna Mullarkey and performed solo by an unflinching Kate Gilmore (actors in Walsh’s plays have to be willing to sweat), Safe House represents experimental territory for its playwright-director.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
23 Feb. 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
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After a long day of arm-twisting and internal party clashes, House Republicans on Tuesday narrowly passed their plan to advance President Donald Trump's legislative agenda.—
Sudiksha Kochi,
USA TODAY,
27 Feb. 2025
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But after some arm-twisting from a publisher, her journals were soon released as a book.—
Kevin Dolak,
The Hollywood Reporter,
19 Feb. 2025
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“Browbeating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/browbeating. Accessed 23 Mar. 2025.
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