Vocabulary
Coercion
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
the action or practice of persuading someone to do something by using force or threats
Urdu meaning
جبر، دباﺅ، زور
Example sentences (from Dawn)
Sentences are selected from stored editorial text where your search word appears. If none appear yet, run the admin sentence generator for fuller coverage.
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Police are generally projected as instruments of coercion and corruption.
Dawn Editorials —
Symbiotic linkage
— 2026-04-28
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Washington`s relative economic decline, including the real prospect that even dollar hegemony is under threat in the Strait of Hormuz and beyond can only be masked by resort to more naked coercion.
Dawn Editorials —
A new dawn?
— 2026-04-10
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They didn`t invest in the barren tribal belt; the BritishIndian army used coercion.
Dawn Editorials —
Ending exclusion
— 2026-03-28
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The illusion that high rates, complexity, and coercion can force formalisation must be discarded.
Dawn Editorials —
Road to exiting IMF
— 2026-01-28
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It becomes weak, even if it has powerful instruments and agents of coercion.
Dawn Editorials —
Absent state accountability
— 2026-01-28
Synonyms
force,constraint, compulsion, duress,enforcement, oppression, harassment
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