as in forced
not made or done willingly or by choice
unwilling contributions from city employees who felt pressured to do so
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Recent Examples of unwilling
Shaw was unwilling to guarantee the loan if the two-person management team didn’t change.
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Paul Flahive, Austin American Statesman, 27 Mar. 2026
Both remind me of Ray’s leads, who sense that they’re being thwarted or not meeting expectations, but seem unable or unwilling to resolve anything.
—James Folta, Literary Hub, 25 Mar. 2026
Mueller repeatedly referred questioners back to the text of his report, apparently unwilling—or unable—to add any words of his own.
—David Frum, The Atlantic, 25 Mar. 2026
With hundreds of thousands fleeing the south, Helou noted that only the few unwilling to abandon their homes remained in the area.
—Charlene Gubash, NBC news, 24 Mar. 2026
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Paul Flahive, Austin American Statesman, 27 Mar. 2026
Both remind me of Ray’s leads, who sense that they’re being thwarted or not meeting expectations, but seem unable or unwilling to resolve anything.
—James Folta, Literary Hub, 25 Mar. 2026
Mueller repeatedly referred questioners back to the text of his report, apparently unwilling—or unable—to add any words of his own.
—David Frum, The Atlantic, 25 Mar. 2026
With hundreds of thousands fleeing the south, Helou noted that only the few unwilling to abandon their homes remained in the area.
—Charlene Gubash, NBC news, 24 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unwilling
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Running parallel to the concern about creating a backdoor—or dozens of backdoors—for product dumping and tariff evasion is a long-running imperative to keep products made with forced labor out of the American market, Conklin said.—
Kate Nishimura,
Sourcing Journal,
25 Mar. 2026
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Crucially, the experience didn’t feel fake or forced.—
Michael Kan,
PC Magazine,
24 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Placental insufficiency, in which the organ fails to develop or function properly, is a leading cause of spontaneous preterm birth, experts say.—
Sandee LaMotte,
CNN Money,
31 Mar. 2026
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That kind of flexibility leads to spontaneous nights where what started off as an intimate hang expands into an all-out party.—
Sammy Loren,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Mar. 2026
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The latest data leak is potentially more damaging to Anthropic than the earlier accidental exposure of the company’s draft blog post about its forthcoming model.—
Beatrice Nolan,
Fortune,
31 Mar. 2026
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Each accidental catch potentially removes an animal that was alive before the Industrial Revolution.—
Samantha Agate,
Charlotte Observer,
31 Mar. 2026
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And despite widespread reporting about coerced conscription in Russia, Ukraine has engaged in the same practice, with some new recruits sent to the front without adequate training.—
Olivier Kempf,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Mar. 2026
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Arcangela Tarabotti, a seventeenth-century Venetian nun who was put into a convent against her will, wrote a critique of coerced enclosure that begins by eviscerating the idea that men are by nature superior to women.—
Chandler Fritz,
The New York Review of Books,
21 Mar. 2026
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“Unwilling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unwilling. Accessed 2 Apr. 2026.
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