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"compelled to engage" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means to feel forced or obligated to participate or take part in something. You can use this phrase in situations where someone is being persuaded or pressured into doing something, but they may not necessarily want to do it. Example: The new company policy compelled the employees to engage in team-building exercises, even though many of them were reluctant to do so.
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Now Obama is compelled to engage.
Only gradually were its inmates compelled to engage in productive labour, felling trees and building roads.
They may be compelled to engage if the US pulls away".
We have to treat AI like cold, hard science, but we are also compelled to engage with it as a shared social concept.
More and more colleagues feel compelled to engage in media battles for the safety of our patients and the security of a nationalised health service.
The memo says, "A crime will not be charged to an individual who is requested or compelled to engage in the behavior that results in the public display of marihuana".
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I was compelled to wage combat.
He felt compelled to hire a lawyer.
What Seinfeld didn't consider is that the hubris that created his precious Stingray and powered this country for decades also destroyed our environment, cratered our economy and compelled us to engage in costly, bloody overseas military adventures.
Consequently for some couples, the desire for sexual intimacy, and particularly for women to preserve their marriages, compelled them to engage in unprotected sex, even at the expense of their own health.
A search for equality, justice, dignity and freedom — not religion — is what compels Syrians to engage in protests today.
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