as in to intimidate
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He's not intimidated by operating in the shadow of such giants.—
Mackensy Lunsford,
The Tennessean,
18 Feb. 2025 -
Yeah, Larkin, 10 years older, sure wasn’t intimidated Saturday night.—
Michael Russo,
The Athletic,
16 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.—
Kristan Hawkins,
Newsweek,
6 Feb. 2025
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Having been browbeaten by the negativity of previous coaches Jose Mourinho and Antonio Conte, having a manager who didn't dismiss the idea the team could be title challengers or moan about a lack of talent was refreshing.—
Zak Garner-Purkis,
Forbes,
22 Jan. 2025
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Just like the previous derby at Goodison, a 2-0 defeat last April, they got bullied at times and were knocked out of their stride.—
James Pearce,
The Athletic,
13 Feb. 2025
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This past Sunday’s Super Bowl blowout — the Philadelphia Eagles bullied the two-time reigning champion Kansas City Chiefs 40-22 – represents a blueprint for the 49ers’ future success.—
Cam Inman,
The Mercury News,
11 Feb. 2025
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Kelly faces felony charges of rape, second-degree domestic battery and first-degree terroristic threatening as well as misdemeanor counts of first-degree interfering with emergency communications and violation of a no-contact order, the report states.—
Grant Lancaster,
arkansasonline.com,
15 Feb. 2025
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He's promised to investigate people who get in the way of or threaten the DOGE team making cuts to federal agencies.—
Carrie Johnson,
NPR,
15 Feb. 2025
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The temptation to dig the hole deeper is even stronger just now, with Gaza a smoldering ruin and all potential regional challengers cowed.—
Max Rodenbeck,
TIME,
17 Jan. 2025
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Key to this is Torres as Eunice, a woman who refuses to be defined by grief or cowed by police intimidation, and her determination to keep her family together is especially inspirational in today’s uncertain world, where happiness is fast becoming an act of rebellion in itself.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
20 Dec. 2024
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Garrett and Carter on the same line would terrorize the NFL starting with the NFC East.—
Pat Leonard,
New York Daily News,
11 Feb. 2025
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Blair Waldorf’s allegiance to Audrey Hepburn was rivalled only by her love of hairbands and terrorizing her Upper East Sider minions.—
Anna Cafolla,
Vogue,
8 Feb. 2025
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The Supreme Court's Bantam Books v. Sullivan precedent makes clear that government officials can't use their position to coerce private entities into censorship.—
Brenda Looper,
arkansasonline.com,
5 Feb. 2025
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The new Trump administration, however, seems much keener on wielding U.S. military power to coerce the Iranians into abandoning their nuclear ambitions.—
Rosemary Kelanic,
Twin Cities,
5 Feb. 2025
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The plan to bulldoze the old Alquist State Building and transform the site into a residential highrise to house university workers, faculty and graduate students is another major initiative that Faas started.—
George Avalos,
The Mercury News,
9 Feb. 2025
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Since Trump’s return to the Oval Office, Musk’s mandate has been to replicate the brute force used to bulldoze Twitter’s workforce following his 2022 acquisition of the social media platform now known as X.—
Liam Reilly,
CNN,
7 Feb. 2025
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