cajoled

past tense of cajole

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of cajoled 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
Verb
  • 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
  • Yet senior test kitchen editor Jesse Szewczyk recently took one of those pallid lumps and coaxed utter brilliance from it.
    Chris Morocco, Bon Appetit Magazine, 14 Aug. 2025

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“Cajoled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cajoled. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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