as in pressure
the use of power to impose one's will on another
complied with the order only under duress
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Recent Examples of duress
But his pique has also come as the league’s media infrastructure, nationally and locally, has undergone a great reshuffling, and as MSG Networks, another Dolan-run company, has come under duress.
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Mike Vorkunov, The Athletic, 25 Mar. 2025
Israeli officials consider such clips depicting hostages to be propaganda attempts by Hamas to weaponize claims made by captives under duress.
—Kevin Sabet, Newsweek, 24 Mar. 2025
The two men have been held captive in Gaza for more than 17 months and are almost certainly speaking under duress.
—Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 24 Mar. 2025
Still, Vancouver was never under duress, and the result was rarely in doubt, especially after Quinn Hughes and Tyler Myers scored on back-to-back shifts late in the first period.
—Thomas Drance, The Athletic, 16 Mar. 2025
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Mike Vorkunov, The Athletic, 25 Mar. 2025
Israeli officials consider such clips depicting hostages to be propaganda attempts by Hamas to weaponize claims made by captives under duress.
—Kevin Sabet, Newsweek, 24 Mar. 2025
The two men have been held captive in Gaza for more than 17 months and are almost certainly speaking under duress.
—Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 24 Mar. 2025
Still, Vancouver was never under duress, and the result was rarely in doubt, especially after Quinn Hughes and Tyler Myers scored on back-to-back shifts late in the first period.
—Thomas Drance, The Athletic, 16 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for duress
Noun
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The Fed's most potent weapon against inflation is to ratchet up or maintain higher interest rates, because an increase in borrowing costs slows economic demand, which eases inflationary pressures.—
Alain Sherter,
CBS News,
21 Apr. 2025
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President Donald Trump took a break from the pressures of presidential life on Monday to engage with families and children at the annual White House Easter Egg Roll.—
Heather Hunter,
The Washington Examiner,
21 Apr. 2025
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Lynch’s installment, Number One on the Call Sheet: Black Leading Women in Hollywood, is executive produced by Angela Bassett and Academy Award winner Halle Berry, and highlights Black women who have led films while navigating a different set of expectations, constraints, and pressures.—
Essence,
Essence,
9 Apr. 2025
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For conservatives who genuinely care about limiting executive power and enforcing constitutional constraints, these tariffs present a moment of truth.—
Gordon G. Chang,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Every Wednesday, women in Iran would film videos of themselves walking unveiled, a peaceful protest against compulsion.—
Katrina Kaufman,
CBS News,
25 Mar. 2025
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Creating collages is almost a compulsion, a way for Jarmusch to escape from the world and nestle into self-reflection.—
Renée Reizman,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Mar. 2025
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What went cruelly overlooked was the larger effect of such coercion: lasting trauma for Schneider, whose outspokenness over the years about her experience typically went unnoticed.—
Robert Abele,
Los Angeles Times,
29 Mar. 2025
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The latest findings add to a growing list of evidence of deeply rooted, widespread malpractice and coercion in what the commission called a mass exportation of children to meet foreign demand.—
Jessie Yeung,
CNN Money,
26 Mar. 2025
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“Duress.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/duress. Accessed 25 Apr. 2025.
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