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Meanings of compulsion in English
Usage of compulsion in English
1
The compulsion to try just-one-more-thing to fix a problem before going home.
2
However, for obvious reasons, they felt no compulsion to share their secret.
3
There shouldn't be a technology-driven compulsion to work in a certain way.
4
It just doesn't happen without serious derangement-orsome kind of magical compulsion.
5
There was some pleasure in the power, and a certain compulsion too.
6
But now he saw that with the power came a deep compulsion.
7
He told Morning Report that the compulsion recommendation was on the table.
8
Loneliness is a passive compulsion; to binge, I need only do nothing.
9
Pinball machines create an unstoppable compulsion!-italso miscategorizes what addiction really is.
10
There is absolutely no compulsion, by anyone, of anyone, at any time.
11
Such a compulsion in past times would have been called a geas.
12
The creative impulse was everywhere replacing fear and compulsion in human motives.
13
So said the books, but he still felt a compulsion and prying.
14
Within a week, dozens more had been overcome by the same compulsion.
15
I felt the compulsion begin even before I returned to the city.
16
They then refused to pay under compulsion; and a complete deadlock ensued.
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Compulsion through the time
Compulsion across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
Ireland
Common
United States of America
Common