as in to force
to cause (a person) to give in to pressure
always manages to sandbag her sister into joining her in these foolish schemes
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Recent Examples of sandbag
Tesla starts the contest sandbagged by a heavy handicap: It’s earned just $13.7 billion the last four quarters, one third the $42.6 billion booked by Nvidia.
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Shawn Tully, Fortune, 15 June 2024
The windows of schools and government buildings are taped up and sandbagged to protect residents from glass in case of explosions.
—Francesca Ebel, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2024
Things weren’t going great in that state, either—high taxes and regulatory struggles were sandbagging the legal market.
—Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024
That means that 1 in 5 economists polled think the Fed should go ahead and cut interest rates, easing up on its determination to sandbag the economy until inflation comes down.
—Melvin Backman, Quartz, 12 Feb. 2024
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Shawn Tully, Fortune, 15 June 2024
The windows of schools and government buildings are taped up and sandbagged to protect residents from glass in case of explosions.
—Francesca Ebel, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2024
Things weren’t going great in that state, either—high taxes and regulatory struggles were sandbagging the legal market.
—Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024
That means that 1 in 5 economists polled think the Fed should go ahead and cut interest rates, easing up on its determination to sandbag the economy until inflation comes down.
—Melvin Backman, Quartz, 12 Feb. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sandbag
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Her story forced the country to confront a flawed legal system and the cultural discomfort with women who challenged it.—
Gemma Allen,
Forbes.com,
1 Apr. 2025
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The move, which has already begun, is again forcing the displacement of Palestinian civilians who returned to their homes in northern and southern Gaza strip after the ceasefire was announced in January.—
Barak Ravid,
Axios,
31 Mar. 2025
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She was sentenced in federal court in Boston to four years in prison for charges of coercing people to engage in prostitution and money laundering conspiracy.—
Flint McColgan,
Boston Herald,
29 Mar. 2025
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Experts say this is a potentially serious counterintelligence problem that could allow foreign intelligence services to gain insight into a target’s social network or even identify individuals who could be paid or coerced to act against them.—
Dhruv Mehrotra,
Wired News,
27 Mar. 2025
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Its methodologies compel leaders and their teams to rigorously examine their most fundamental beliefs, anticipate disruptive scenarios, and prepare adaptive responses.—
Bryce Hoffman,
Forbes,
23 Mar. 2025
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DeSantis warned Thursday that his office may suspend officials who do not compel local law enforcement to assist ICE with detainments and deportations.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
21 Mar. 2025
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Is he contractually obligated to win all the fights?—
Chris Lee,
Vulture,
28 Mar. 2025
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The payment to the city needs to be fulfilled by March 30, when the city is obligated to close its books for the year.—
Nell Salzman,
Chicago Tribune,
28 Mar. 2025
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With the release of Season 3’s first three episode, Prime Video’s Reacher easily muscled its way back onto Nielsen’s U.S. ranking of streaming originals.—
Matt Webb Mitovich,
TVLine,
20 Mar. 2025
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Johnson succeeds in jamming Schumer Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) set the tone for this week’s shutdown showdown, unveiling the stopgap Saturday, selling it to his conference Monday and muscling it through his razor-thin majority Tuesday.—
Mychael Schnell,
The Hill,
14 Mar. 2025
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Katy, a 32-year-old mother of a 15-month-old in Texas, requested that her daughter be given the second dose early because of the outbreak in Texas and upcoming travel plans; her pediatrician obliged, administering the second dose years early.—
Fortesa Latifi,
Rolling Stone,
20 Mar. 2025
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Scheffler apparently felt obliged to include the recipe after famously cutting open his hand with a wine glass while making homemade ravioli earlier this year, according to CBS Sports.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
19 Mar. 2025
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“Sandbag.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sandbag. Accessed 4 Apr. 2025.
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