coaxed (out)

past tense of coax (out)

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for coaxed (out)
Verb
  • On April 10 this year, Mbappe obtained a court order to freeze PSG’s accounts.
    Tom Burrows, New York Times, 12 Dec. 2025
  • Police said warrants were obtained for all seven suspects, along with search warrants for their homes.
    Carlos E. Castañeda, CBS News, 11 Dec. 2025
Verb
  • Boats four through eight will be procured at a rate of one submarine per year over the next five years, with the program costing about $62 billion.
    Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 11 June 2026
  • So, the day before the England quarterfinal, Argentina procured a lighter shirt, with faint vertical stripes, from a run-of-the-mill Mexico City sports shop.
    Michael Cox, New York Times, 3 June 2026
Verb
  • Regardless, Tyrrell has gained strokes ball-striking (driving and on approach) in the last four majors.
    Geoff Clark OutKick, FOXNews.com, 15 June 2026
  • As media monopolies gained control of discourse, a new feudalism arose.
    Alex Ross, New Yorker, 15 June 2026
Verb
  • Ma has also secured sponsorships for his World Cup appearance from some of the biggest Chinese brands, including technology firm Lenovo and electronics giant Hisense.
    Kathleen Magramo, CNN Money, 15 June 2026
  • Since graduation, James has appeared on the thriller series Lady in the Lake and secured a guest spot on Elsbeth alongside his father.
    Chanel Vargas, InStyle, 14 June 2026
Verb
  • Detmers was still 15 pitches shy of his season-high when Suzuki pulled him.
    Jeff Fletcher, Oc Register, 11 June 2026
  • The righty was later pulled after allowing singles to the first two batters of the fifth inning, both of whom later scored and counted against Morris’ statline.
    Sean Campbell, Sacbee.com, 10 June 2026
Verb
  • The team collected 53 masks in sterile bags and cut out the outer layers to analyze just the microbes circulating in the air and not in people’s respiratory passages, then extracted and analyzed DNA from them.
    Alice Park, Time, 4 Dec. 2025
  • After the clouded lens was extracted, surgeons implanted a clear, artificial replacement to restore 20/20 vision.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 4 Dec. 2025
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“Coaxed (out).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coaxed%20%28out%29. Accessed 17 Jun. 2026.

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