as in to intimidate
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And, Wright says, human therapists should not be intimidated by their AI counterparts.—
Katia Riddle,
NPR,
7 Apr. 2025 -
For the past year and a half, our Arab, Palestinian, and Muslim community at Microsoft has been silenced, intimidated, harassed, and doxxed, with impunity from Microsoft.—
Jordan Novet,Hayden Field,
CNBC,
4 Apr. 2025
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Meanwhile, Trump has his own social media and has browbeaten others, notably Facebook, into forsaking fact-checking.—
Orlando Sentinel and South Florida Sun Sentinel Editorial Boards,
Orlando Sentinel,
14 Mar. 2025
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In the Legislature, the hard feelings with DeSantis might linger after years of being browbeaten into passing his agendas.—
Lawrence Mower,
Miami Herald,
28 Feb. 2025
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Related article China vows to counter Trump’s ‘bullying’ tariffs as global trade war escalates Another Australian territory targeted by tariffs is the Cocos Islands.—
Brad Lendon,
CNN Money,
3 Apr. 2025
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Harvard University settled two lawsuits claiming that the school failed to stop antisemitic harassment and bullying on campus the day after President Donald Trump’s inauguration.—
Carolyn Stein,
Chicago Tribune,
2 Apr. 2025
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Alfredo Pacheco to the United States but renal disease threatened to cut short his life.—
Michael Loria,
USA Today,
4 Apr. 2025
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Senior Iranian officials are threatening to ramp up the country's nuclear program as the Trump administration weighs a possible strike against the regime if Tehran does not come to the table for negotiations.—
Chris Massaro,
FOXNews.com,
4 Apr. 2025
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Depressed and cowed by his wife, Michael comes across as naïve to the point of foolishness, and there are moments when his haplessness is played for laughs.—
Kristen Baldwin,
EW.com,
19 Mar. 2025
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Until then, amplifying Putin’s nuclear threats, or appearing to be cowed by them, erodes that deterrence.—
Anthony Lake,
Chicago Tribune,
17 Mar. 2025
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Written and directed by Worley, Sketch stars Tony Hale, D’Arcy Carden, Bianca Belle and Kue Lawrence in the story of a single dad who is swept up in an insane adventure when his daughter’s comically dark drawings come to life and terrorize their small town.—
Chris Gardner,
HollywoodReporter,
2 Apr. 2025
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As The Athletic details, Cornett has been harassed and terrorized, and her privacy repeatedly invaded, over the last five weeks.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
2 Apr. 2025
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The settlement also adds that Google will not interfere with, restrain or coerce workers in the exercise of their rights.—
Jennifer Elias,
CNBC,
9 Apr. 2025
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If a sitting or former president can successfully coerce law firms into submission by threatening financial ruin, what happens to the idea of legal independence?—
Ron Estes,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Mar. 2025
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Torretto was one of a half-dozen advocates who fought to keep the canyon from being bulldozed for residential development.—
Julie Gallant,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
2 Apr. 2025
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If the existing building were bulldozed, Samsung could replace it with a modern and significantly larger structure.—
George Avalos,
The Mercury News,
28 Feb. 2025
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“Arm-twist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/arm-twist. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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