as in to force
to cause (a person) to give in to pressure
always manages to sandbag her sister into joining her in these foolish schemes
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Recent Examples of sandbag
Competition among the more than 2 million sellers on the site is so fierce, merchants have even stooped to bribing Amazon workers to give their products an advantage and sandbag their competitors.
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Bloomberg, The Mercury News, 15 July 2024
Tesla starts the contest sandbagged by a heavy handicap: It’s earned just $13.7 billion the last four quarters, one third the $42.6 billion booked by Nvidia.
—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 15 June 2024
The windows of schools and government buildings are taped up and sandbagged to protect residents from glass in case of explosions.
—Francesca Ebel, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2024
Things weren’t going great in that state, either—high taxes and regulatory struggles were sandbagging the legal market.
—Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024
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Bloomberg, The Mercury News, 15 July 2024
Tesla starts the contest sandbagged by a heavy handicap: It’s earned just $13.7 billion the last four quarters, one third the $42.6 billion booked by Nvidia.
—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 15 June 2024
The windows of schools and government buildings are taped up and sandbagged to protect residents from glass in case of explosions.
—Francesca Ebel, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2024
Things weren’t going great in that state, either—high taxes and regulatory struggles were sandbagging the legal market.
—Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sandbag
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The prospect of a New York team with an identity forged from refusing to yield under pressure forcing an anxiety-inducing Game 7 at Madison Square Garden looms large.—
Bobby Krivitsky,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2025
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My biggest soccer loves will forever be Club América and Liga MX, but Vela forced me to make some room in my heart for the black and gold.—
Fidel Martinez,
Los Angeles Times,
30 May 2025
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The alleged kidnappers shocked the victim with electric wires, held him upside down from the top of a staircase, cut his leg with a saw and threatened to kill his family in a bid to coerce their Italian hostage to unlock his Bitcoin account, prosecutors said.—
Colin Mixson,
New York Daily News,
30 May 2025
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Swat is coerced into taking on the role or finally getting legal comeuppances for all of his misdeeds and ends up taking on solving the mystery of a series of disappearances plaguing Echo city.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
29 May 2025
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In a conversation with Harvard Business School, Sam Altman observes that the rise of AI will compel us to rethink jobs and society.—
Arafat Kabir,
Forbes.com,
4 June 2025
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So when California sets new emission standards – and other states follow – the auto industry is compelled to adopt them.—
Francine Kiefer,
Christian Science Monitor,
2 June 2025
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Last month, a Los Angeles judge ruled that Sony was no longer obligated to provide episodes to CBS, which has served for decades as the conduit, delivering batches of episodes to television stations around the country.—
Meg James,
Los Angeles Times,
29 May 2025
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Are the writer’s managers, who’re also producers on the movie, obligated to disclose the bump and renegotiate their client’s pay?—
Winston Cho,
HollywoodReporter,
22 May 2025
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As the night shift ended early in the morning of April 26, Easter Monday, Pilecki and his two compatriots muscled the door open and ran like rabbits from a fox.—
Paul Hockenos,
Smithsonian Magazine,
8 May 2025
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And the president is currently looking to muscle through a settlement in his lawsuit with the broadcaster.—
Liam Reilly,
CNN Money,
5 May 2025
Verb
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If the Guardians were looking for the slider this time, Soriano didn’t oblige.—
Jeff Fletcher,
Oc Register,
30 May 2025
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In a debate with his opponent in late May, Trzaskowski spoke out about the upcoming EU Pact on Migration and Asylum, which in theory could oblige Poland to take more refugees from the Middle East and Africa or face penalties.—
Frey Lindsay,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2025
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“Sandbag.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sandbag. Accessed 11 Jun. 2025.
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