as in coaxed
to get (someone) to do something by gentle urging, special attention, or flattery
cajoled her into doing his laundry for him
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Recent Examples of cajoled
The sloganeering has cajoled some of the nation’s biggest food brands to shift its offerings, curb the use of some dyes, and even redo recipes of iconic goods like Coca-Cola and day-to-day items like baby formula.
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Philip Elliott, Time, 10 Sep. 2025
He’s cajoled and he’s threatened.
—Francesca Chambers, USA Today, 7 Sep. 2025
Investors won’t be cajoled by pressure from the Oval Office to continue buying either, said Desmond Lachman, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
—Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 3 Sep. 2025
But the Virgin Mary and the angels had cajoled him into granting humankind one last chance to repent.
—Michael Robbins, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
Reform will not come from within, so it must be cajoled from without.
—Ilya Shapiro, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Aug. 2025
Philip Elliott, Time, 10 Sep. 2025
He’s cajoled and he’s threatened.
—Francesca Chambers, USA Today, 7 Sep. 2025
Investors won’t be cajoled by pressure from the Oval Office to continue buying either, said Desmond Lachman, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
—Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 3 Sep. 2025
But the Virgin Mary and the angels had cajoled him into granting humankind one last chance to repent.
—Michael Robbins, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
Reform will not come from within, so it must be cajoled from without.
—Ilya Shapiro, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cajoled
coaxed
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Around 380 million years ago, ankle-high greenery shot to the sky in strange, towering forests that coaxed fish and invertebrates ashore to try out life on land.—
Peter Brannen,
Quanta Magazine,
15 Sep. 2025
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The goal of the study was to see whether or not participants could be coaxed into valuing a specific trait more purely based on experience alone.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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“Cajoled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cajoled. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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