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coercing

/koʊˈɜːrsɪŋ/ /koʊˈɜːrsɪŋɡ/

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verb

Zwingen, nötigen

To restrain by force, especially by law or authority; to repress; to curb.

Examples :

"The bully was coercing the smaller student into giving him his lunch money. "

Der Schläger zwang den kleineren Schüler, ihm sein Pausengeld zu geben.

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verb

Zwingen, nötigen

To use force, threat, fraud, or intimidation in an attempt to compel one to act against their will.

Examples :

"The bully was coercing the younger student into giving up his lunch money by threatening to beat him up. "

Der Schläger zwang den jüngeren Schüler, ihm sein Pausengeld zu geben, indem er drohte, ihn zu verprügeln.

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verb

Erzwingen, umwandeln

To force an attribute, normally of a data type, to take on the attribute of another data type.

Examples :

"The spreadsheet program was coercing the dates, which should have been in a chronological order, into text format, so they wouldn't sort correctly. "

Das Tabellenkalkulationsprogramm zwang die Datumsangaben, die in chronologischer Reihenfolge hätten stehen sollen, in ein Textformat um, sodass sie nicht richtig sortiert wurden.

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