Synonyms for compels
com·pels

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1. List of paraphrases for "compels":

   obliges, obligates, requires

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1. Sue Grafton:

   People who've had happy childhoods are wonderful, but they're bland An unhappy childhood compels you to use your imagination to create a world in which you can be happy. Use your old grief. That's the gift you're given.

2. Kedar Joshi:

   The worst mockery God can make of a moralist is that He compels him to be a solipsist.

3. Robert Schapiro:

   There is nothing under our law that compels a rabbi, minister or pastor of any kind to perform a marriage that that person doesn’t want to perform, that was the law before the Supreme Court decision. And that remains the law afterwards.

4. Hiram Sasser:

   It further compels our client to use specific pronouns when referring to certain ‘gender identities’ and prohibits our client from even teaching its religious beliefs, cornerstone World Outreach cannot be made to open its restrooms for use by individuals in accordance with their gender identities, rather than their sex assigned at birth.

5. Camille Paglia:

   Despite crime's omnipresence, things work in society, because biology compels it. Order eventually restores itself, by psychic equilibrium.