persuade

Examples of persuade in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Eventually, he was persuaded that witnesses who had placed Spencer at the crime scene were lying or irrevocably compromised. Terry W., The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Oct. 2024 In an election that’s expected to be decided by thin margins, Democrats are trying to persuade enough people to cross the aisle to nudge Harris over the finish line. Chris Megerian, Chicago Tribune, 22 Oct. 2024 One of Obama’s tasks leading up to Election Day is to persuade Black men that voting for Donald Trump would be a grievous mistake. Josh Feldman, NBC News, 21 Oct. 2024 These were mostly ignored, but one recipient, the English mathematician G.H. Hardy, corresponded with Ramanujan for a year and eventually persuaded him to come to England, smoothing the way with the colonial bureaucracies. Jordana Cepelewicz, Quanta Magazine, 21 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for persuade 

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“Persuade.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/persuade. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.

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