as in to intimidate
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for arm-twist
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But, after an eight-year hiatus, teeing off in front of people was intimidating.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
28 Feb. 2025 -
Antonio Reyes, a 21-year-old police say shot and killed six people as a teenager, is behind bars but remains a terror, intimidating guards and attempting to kill fellow inmates.—
Michael Loria,
USA TODAY,
28 Feb. 2025
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Trump has also browbeaten Mark Zuckerberg into dumping content moderation and fact-checking from Facebook, Instagram and any other Meta properties, as well as dumping on the journalists who do the fact checking in the first place.—
Amanda Castro,
Newsweek,
6 Feb. 2025
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Trump’s brazen and often distasteful behavior revealed a bald truth: U.S. allies will put up with more capriciousness, browbeating, and neglect than anyone expected.—
Robert E. Kelly,
Foreign Affairs,
22 Feb. 2022
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While being black or white may not be inherent to Snape’s character, Potter fans note that this will set up situations like James Potter bullying a young black kid in the ‘70s which are certainly not good optics and totally change the dynamics of the James/Lily/Snape storyline.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes,
8 Mar. 2025
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The claims range from a prosecutor addressing an attorney by her first name and interfering with witnesses during depositions, to allegations that prosecutors withheld evidence, bullied a witness and engaged in selective prosecution of a mother whose son was shot and killed by police.—
Brittany Wallman,
Miami Herald,
7 Mar. 2025
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Decimating agencies, military, siding with a terrorist state, threatening to invade US allies, stripping services from vets, ceding US power to Russia and China.—
David Faris,
Newsweek,
27 Feb. 2025
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Add on top of that the current tariff regime being instituted and threatened by the Trump administration under the auspices of balancing trade deficits and immigration enforcement negotiations.—
Thomas Kennedy,
Orlando Sentinel,
27 Feb. 2025
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Newcastle were cowed and hanging on, forsaking ground.—
Chris Waugh,
The Athletic,
24 Feb. 2025
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When Trump has needed to, the threat of primaries has cowed the skeptics back into line.—
Philip Elliott,
TIME,
14 Feb. 2025
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In another instance, a man decided to share footage showing how his clingy Boston terrier terrorizes him for much of the night.—
Gordon G. Chang,
Newsweek,
3 Mar. 2025
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The knife-wielding attacker shot and killed by an off-duty Boston police officer after refusing to back down from terrorizing Chick-fil-A patrons in the Back Bay this weekend has been identified.—
Joe Dwinell,
Boston Herald,
3 Mar. 2025
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Trump’s rocky relationship with Zelensky goes back five years—to when Trump first held up military assistance Congress had authorized for Ukraine to coerce Zelensky into investigating his political rival Joe Biden.—
Brian Bennett,
TIME,
5 Mar. 2025
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A week later, the White House used the threat of tariffs to coerce Mexico into dispatching thousands of additional troops along the U.S.-Mexico border to combat fentanyl smuggling.—
Daniel DePetris,
Chicago Tribune,
4 Mar. 2025
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Trump praised Musk's work with the Department of Government Efficiency, which since Inauguration Day has bulldozed through scores of federal agencies.—
Phillip M. Bailey,
USA TODAY,
5 Mar. 2025
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Last year, Providence Day School backed away from buying the 88-year-old Akers Estate house after neighbors raised fears about the home potentially being bulldozed for athletic fields.—
Chase Jordan,
Charlotte Observer,
21 Feb. 2025
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“Arm-twist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/arm-twist. Accessed 14 Mar. 2025.
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