Definitions for Compelled
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1. Compelled

   Compelled is a 1960 British neo noir black and white crime film, one of two films directed by Ramsey Herrington. It stars Ronald Howard and Beth Rogan.

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1. compelled

   prompted to or that one has to

   As class president, he felt compelled to tape a note about students' concerns on the teacher’s desk. Due to his conscience, he felt compelled to tell the truth.

   Etymology: Source from en.wiktionary.org "From Middle English compellen, borrowed from Middle French compellir, from Latin compellere, itself from com- (“together”) + pellere (“to drive”)." Source: lexico.com (Oxford Languages)

   
   

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Compelled in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Compelled in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of Compelled in a Sentence

1. Anita Alvarez:

   I felt compelled in the interest of public safety to announce these state charges today.

2. Johnson:

   It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied, to be healthy with physic, secure without a guard, and to obtain from the bounty of nature what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of art.

3. Lori Tremmel Freeman:

   I think the more the pandemic is in the rearview mirror for some people -- or they believe it is -- then the less compelled they will be to do this, and so we have a big public health education campaign ahead of us, also, health departments at the local level will be looking to understand the landscape of their community in terms of how many providers, pediatricians and pharmacies have actually signed up to give out the vaccine.

4. 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.

5. Christian Willenborg:

   When you see death in your loved one’s eyes, when you see fear in your loved one’s eyes, you’re compelled to act.

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References

1. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compelled
2. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Compelled