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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 browbeating
Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
Verb
This might take a series of browbeating prompts, but that’s not a big deal.
—Recent Examples of Synonyms for browbeating
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The businessman claimed the payout from the suit would go to anti-bullying causes.—
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The experience led the Dunns to file a report in accordance with anti-bullying provisions in New York's Dignity For All Students Act.—
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Kelly, clearly, will keep standing up to these feckless attempts at coercion.—
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External coercion absent a credible internal political project does not deliver freedom.—
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Indeed, one of General George Washington’s greatest achievements was to avoid being cornered and forced to capitulate to these intimidating legions in the war’s early years.—
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Tips for Making Coconut Cake Layer cakes can be intimidating for hobby bakers.—
Adjective
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Despite his limitations, Joe displayed an impressive degree of ascetic discipline and a ravenous desire for God.—
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The fantastical park resembles a theatre set, rife with spiritual allegory and modeled on an ascetic’s dream of utopia.—
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Auburn committed 26 against Texas' full- and half-court pressure with the Longhorns turning them into 40 points.—
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Polymer packaging requires injection molding, which normally uses high pressure.—
Adjective
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None has been as unflinching as King of Ashes.—
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After the two action stars famously feuded while working on the Fast & Furious movies and then apparently squashed their beef, Diesel is praising Johnson and his recent performance in The Smashing Machine, the unflinching biopic about mixed martial artist Mark Kerr.—
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In recent years Beijing has ramped up its military intimidation of Taiwan, including by simulating blockades.—
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Those groups have been active in the streets, detaining opponents and reinforcing regime authority through intimidation.—
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What frustrated her most was that the issue refused to stay resolved.—
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Since then, attorneys and judges have overseen multiple lenient plea deals and case dismissals, while local prosecutors reviewed hundreds of active and resolved cases that Tran investigated.—
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“Browbeating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/browbeating. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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