Forced [adjective]

The forced, sudden digitization experienced in 2020 has also fundamentally changed how corporate leaders view themselves and their relationship to their organizations.

But he walked up and down the room and forced himself to listen, though he could scarcely bear it, I could see.

Instead of giving you a chance to say, "He has made a mistake," he forced you to say, "He has shown how to get out of a mistake."

A lineman was sent out to repair it under escort of civil guards, who were forced by the rebels to retire.

"I will," gruffly replied the man, with a look which showed that he was sorry to be forced to choose the second alternative.

He stepped to the girl, and roughly raised her chin with his hand so that she was forced to look him in the face.

Spontaneous gaiety was gone out of his cousin, whose attempts to be his normal self became forced and unsuccessful.

The safe in my study was forced open, and three thousand francs and some valuable jewelry were stolen.

Through these flues were forced currents of hot air from a blaze in a large fireplace at one end of the house.

Only then did I own that by hook or by crook—and mostly by crook, I was forced to suspect—they had purposely given me the slip.