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
Flights will continue to take off, but the aviation sector will be under duress and that means most likely some delays and cancellations.
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Jeanne Bonner, CNN Money, 30 Sep. 2025
Let’s accept that OpenAI’s 700 million weekly users, four times the amount of last year, aren’t going there under duress.
—Jim Cramer, CNBC, 28 Sep. 2025
Bo Nix has been the worst starting quarterback in the NFL when under duress — at least, by the numbers — through three games this season.
—Luca Evans, Denver Post, 26 Sep. 2025
That is the time to create, not under duress when the risk soars disproportionately to the rewards.
—Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 23 Sep. 2025
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Jeanne Bonner, CNN Money, 30 Sep. 2025
Let’s accept that OpenAI’s 700 million weekly users, four times the amount of last year, aren’t going there under duress.
—Jim Cramer, CNBC, 28 Sep. 2025
Bo Nix has been the worst starting quarterback in the NFL when under duress — at least, by the numbers — through three games this season.
—Luca Evans, Denver Post, 26 Sep. 2025
That is the time to create, not under duress when the risk soars disproportionately to the rewards.
—Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 23 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for duress
Noun
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As Monaco ramped up the second-half pressure, with Spurs seemingly having no answer for the pace and fervour with which the Ligue 1 side attacked Frank’s defence from all angles, Netherlands international Teze looked set to break the deadlock.—
Elias Burke,
New York Times,
23 Oct. 2025
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Some of Microsoft’s AI competitors are facing intense pressure to keep young users safe on their platforms.—
Clare Duffy,
CNN Money,
23 Oct. 2025
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Historically, there hasn’t been a cost-effective way to make donation work over dumping, and while companies want to do the right thing, the financial constraints prevent them from doing so.—
Andre Claudio,
Sourcing Journal,
27 Oct. 2025
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Alternatively, the ratio could reflect a fundamental constraint on heat exchange.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
27 Oct. 2025
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But now, having reined in his recklessness and compulsion to constantly create and force plays, the Patriots have developed an elite prospect into a promising pro passer.—
Andrew Callahan,
Boston Herald,
14 Oct. 2025
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Where does this compulsion stem from?—
Nina Mesfin,
New Yorker,
5 Oct. 2025
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In the 1980s and ’90s, Colombia’s cocaine cartels controlled entire regions through intimidation, corruption and fear tactics that are nearly identical to what’s now unfolding in parts of Mexico.—
Sarah Rumpf-Whitten,
FOXNews.com,
26 Oct. 2025
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Immigrant and Latino communities — already under siege from ICE — now face not just intimidation, but real, fatal consequences.—
Bulmaro Vicente,
Oc Register,
26 Oct. 2025
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The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force said Tokyo and New Delhi are deepening their multi-layered cooperation as part of the Special Strategic and Global Partnership, referring to bilateral ties that seek a free, open, peaceful, prosperous and coercion-free Indo-Pacific.—
Ryan Chan,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Oct. 2025
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The study of gender represents the kind of free inquiry that allows people to decide for themselves how to live, free of coercion or government control.—
Elizabeth Anne Wood,
The Conversation,
21 Oct. 2025
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“Duress.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/duress. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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