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. Saptarshi Bandyopadhyay:

   Radio telescopes on Earth can not see cosmic radio waves at about 33 feet( 10 meters) or longer because of our ionosphere, so there's a whole region of the universe that we simply can not see, but previous ideas of building a radio antenna on the Moon have been very resource intensive and complicated, so we were compelled to come up with something different.

2. Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev:

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

3. George Terwilliger:

   Contrary to decades of consistent bipartisan opinions from the Justice Department that senior aides can not be compelled by Congress to give testimony, this is the first President to make no effort whatsoever to protect presidential communications from being the subject of compelled testimony. Staff Mark Meadows remains under the instructions of former President Trump to respect longstanding principles of executive privilege. It now appears the courts will have to resolve this conflict.

4. Bill Clinton:

   There is not any question in Ferguson, whatever the findings of the grand jury, if the law enforcement officer had not gone after the man and felt compelled to shoot him, he would be alive.

5. Kenneth J Dover:

   it was clear to me by now that Trevor and the college must somehow be separated. My problem was one which I feel compelled to define with brutal candor: how to kill him without getting into trouble... I had no qualms about causing the death of a fellow from whose nonexistence the college would benefit