Synonyms for compelled
com·pelled

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1. List of paraphrases for "compelled":

   forced, obliged, bound, obligated, coerced, required, constrained

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1. Communist Manifesto:

   All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.

2. President Biden:

   There's no more room at the inn, but we are compelled by local laws here that we must provide shelter and continue to move in the right direction.

3. Robert Abrams:

   You've got a group of people with dementia who don't really grasp the nature and purpose of their surroundings, or the circumstances that compelled them to be there, consequently they're alone and at sea, and feel frightened and even abandoned by family.

4. John Tobin:

   They will be compelled to pay more to get those same trades done.

5. Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev:

   All sides must be compelled to sit at the negotiating table instead of unleashing a new world war.