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- verb Past participle of
brow-beat
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Examples
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Get ready for $4 gas and your local Starbucks brew heading north of 5 bucks -- all courtesy of the financial lobbyists, hedge fund traders, industry spokesmen and a brow-beaten CFTC.
Daniel Dicker: Opaque Commodity Trading: You'll Be Paying for it at the Pump Daniel Dicker 2011
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Get ready for $4 gas and your local Starbucks brew heading north of 5 bucks -- all courtesy of the financial lobbyists, hedge fund traders, industry spokesmen and a brow-beaten CFTC.
Daniel Dicker: Opaque Commodity Trading: You'll Be Paying for it at the Pump Daniel Dicker 2011
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I will not be brow-beaten by threats of Republicans being worse – the Democrats have proven their worthlessness this past cycle.
Matthew Yglesias » The Price of Depression, the Upside of Optimism 2009
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If the COTS program was really brow-beaten into being just the realm of new entrants, the whole program should be thrown out and be recompeted on a level playing field.
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He had been brow-beaten and confused by Colonel Ingram.
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The latter, by the looks of the interview, wasn't talking very much, never having either been allowed, called or wishing to go to Jerusalem to testify; and, by the looks of the encounter too, was for all intents and purposes brow-beaten into an unenthusiastic recantation B.A.R., May/June, 20ll.
Robert Eisenman: The James Ossuary: Is It Authentic? (An Update) Robert Eisenman 2011
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He had been brow-beaten and confused by Colonel Ingram.
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Hopefully, this prescription will be sufficiently authoritarian that it will be left alone, keeping alive grammatical debate amongst the hordes of brow-beaten undergrads roaming the stairwells.
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After feeling brow-beaten by Terisa's inadequacies in The Mirror of her Dreams, I was relieved when she discovered what her talent is and acted on it.
A Man Rides Through Fred Perry 2010
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After feeling brow-beaten by Terisa's inadequacies in The Mirror of her Dreams, I was relieved when she discovered what her talent is and acted on it.
Archive 2010-01-01 Fred Perry 2010
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