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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 call came as Trump has declared a trade war on Canada and has threatened to use economic coercion to make Canada the 51st U.S. state, a position that has infuriated Canadians.—
Rob Gillies,
Los Angeles Times,
29 Mar. 2025
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Moscow stepped up its economic coercion, political meddling, and military aggression to stymie its neighbors’ progress toward democracy and European integration.—
Alexander Vindman,
Foreign Affairs,
27 Mar. 2025
Verb
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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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This is especially clear in the contrast between Marcus Luria and his father, the ascetic sage Zalia Ziskind.—
Adam Kirsch,
The New Yorker,
21 Mar. 2025
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While Mathu is an ascetic loner, Malby was a hedonistic womanizer.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
20 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Join 8 others in the comments View Comments The exhibition also addresses the pressures that come with going for a dip.—
Leah Dolan,
CNN Money,
28 Mar. 2025
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The blame doesn’t solely fall at his feet, but in the final year of his contract, the pressure is on his team to make fall baseball a reality once again on the north side of Chicago.—
Sahadev Sharma,
New York Times,
28 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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The film that, to me, in its most unflinching way, describes the Third Reich, the Holocaust, and the concentration camps.—
Harrison Richlin,
IndieWire,
29 Mar. 2025
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For O’Connor, cultivating an unflinching engagement with reality was always a hopeful pursuit.—
Ellen Wexler,
Smithsonian Magazine,
25 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Inna, notoriously protective of her husband’s legacy, worked with a translator and editors on a few chapters of the book but then retreated into obstinate silence.—
Andrew Silow-Carroll,
Sun Sentinel,
2 Apr. 2025
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Sadat and Israel’s Menachem Begin were obstinate, colorful negotiators.—
Arthur House,
Hartford Courant,
30 Dec. 2024
Noun
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Thune has also tried to describe Trump’s arm-twisting of Zelensky in nobler language.—
David D. Kirkpatrick,
New Yorker,
31 Mar. 2025
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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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“Browbeating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/browbeating. Accessed 10 Apr. 2025.
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