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Recent Examples of Synonyms for intimidation
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Exploiting this vulnerability, 764 members tend to elicit fear by threatening to share a victim’s explicit or harmful content with family and friends or publicly online, ultimately forcing them to comply with their demands.—
Alex Vance,
Parents,
4 June 2025 -
Choosing to be bold and to fight fear is not the easy choice.—
Mitchell W. Berger,
Sun Sentinel,
4 June 2025
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If President Trump makes good on his threat to shift disaster response to the states, Florida and other states on the front lines of climate change will be the first to suffer.—
Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board,
The Orlando Sentinel,
1 June 2025
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The Remote survey found that 75% of the respondents either have a second side hustle or have considered one to protect from threats of layoffs.—
Bryan Robinson,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2025
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The analyst described how Uribe’s experience of violence from a young age defined his politics.—
Alfie Pannell,
Miami Herald,
8 June 2025
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Security and extremism experts say a significant factor in driving violence is that many protesters draw no distinction between someone who is Jewish and someone who supports Israel's attacks on Hamas in Gaza, which is home to about 2.1 million Palestinians.—
Trevor Hughes,
USA Today,
8 June 2025
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This era demonstrated how hegemony involves more than coercion.—
Andrew Latham,
The Conversation,
30 May 2025
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Ventura Fine finally came forward in November 2023, filing a lawsuit alleging that Combs kept her locked in the abusive relationship through frequent beatings, coercion, control over her career and blackmail.—
Josh Meyer,
USA Today,
29 May 2025
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Our heavily armored alien menace starts taking out drug cartel goons and making a mess, and a couple of cops (Danny Glover and Bill Paxton) plus an unhinged DEA agent (Gary Busey) are on the case to investigate.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
7 June 2025
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Read more: Vikings Receive Another Head-Turning Aaron Rodgers Update Justin Jefferson is an absolute menace at the wide receiver position.—
Evan Massey,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 June 2025
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Six of the injured in what federal officials have described as a terror attack were from the same synagogue, Bonai Shalom.—
Trevor Hughes,
USA Today,
8 June 2025
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The president said on X the travel ban was being introduced after a terror attack against a pro-Israel group advocating for Hamas to release Israeli hostages in Boulder, Colorado, last weekend, allegedly by an Egyptian man who had overstayed his visa.—
Paul Tilsley,
FOXNews.com,
8 June 2025
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The big picture: Monday's incident in Liverpool, northwest England, which injured 65 people gathered to watch players parade their English Premier League trophy, is not being treated as terrorism, according to police.—
Rebecca Falconer,
Axios,
28 May 2025
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In a late-night press conference on May 26, Assistant Chief Constable Jenny Sims said that police were not treating the incident as terrorism.—
Simon Perry,
People.com,
27 May 2025
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One of the ways that happened, Lam said, came in the form of U.S. political pressure on foreign governments or private industry to negotiate mutually beneficial agreements between Indigenous peoples and their governments.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
8 June 2025
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The budgetary pressures caused by $20.5 million in player compensation will cause schools to redirect all available cash.—
Jon Wilner,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 June 2025
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“Intimidation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intimidation. Accessed 12 Jun. 2025.
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