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"bully into" is a valid and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you are trying to describe someone who aggressively, forcefully, or coercively makes someone do something that they otherwise would not do. For example: "He tried to bully her into giving up her lunch money."
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That capability would transform him from a boxed-in bully into a rampant world power.
I don't remember how we planned to get the bully into my house, but, at any rate, our improvised electric chair didn't work, as we discovered when we tried it ourselves.
If he calculates that a shrunken UK bereft of its Scottish MPs, and quite possibly under perpertual Tory rule, will be an infinitely easier one to bully into promoting his commercial interests (allowing him, for example, to take a 100 per cent stake in BSkyB), he doubtless calculates correctly.
How am I to accept the fact that you helped elect a bully into office?
Some cuts were made to the film to secure a PG-13 rating, but not before Weinstein sent "Bully" into theaters as unrated.
Leaving aside the reprehensible connotations of rape, Limbaugh has the president somehow morphing from an intimidating bully into an essentially uninvolved bystander.
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Was he bullied into a U-turn?
Did you feel bullied into coming out?
The audience resented being bullied into clapping.
Absolutely ridiculous that @taylorswift13 has now been bullied into apologising.
We Southerners, they said, would not be bullied into desegregation.
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