Pattern family
The available choices, or the available time to make one, get narrowed until only the preferred outcome is left standing. Urgency and inevitability do the same job as a rigged menu: they remove the moment where a different question might have been asked.
Choice foreclosure
Public discourseYou picked freely. The menu was written so only one option could survive. Your choice was the cover.
False dilemma
Public discourseYou were offered two doors. There were six. Nobody mentioned the other four.
Loaded question
Relationships and groupsAny answer you give accepts something you never agreed to. The trap isn't in the answer. It's already in the question.
Inevitability framing
Platforms and algorithmsYou adapted because you were told there was no alternative. 'No alternative' was the argument, not the evidence.
Reality preemption
Public discourseThe future was declared done before you could audit it. The completion was the cage.
Crisis synthesis
Public discourseYou acted because there was no time to check. The deadline was rhetorical, not real. The urgency was the lock.
Unity simulation
Public discourseYou heard 'everyone agrees' and stopped checking. The agreement was asserted, not shown. Your silence was counted as a yes.
Crisis cycling
Relationships and groupsYou called it a rough patch. You did not notice that the rough patches arrived on a rhythm, and that the rescue always came from the same hand that lit the fuse.