coaxed (out)

Definition of coaxed (out)next
past tense of coax (out)

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Verb
  • Jarred Cavan Milpitas Police Department The Milpitas Police Department said in a press release that during the investigation, its detectives identified a second suspect, a 16-year-old boy and Milpitas resident, and obtained a warrant for his arrest.
    Carlos E. Castañeda, CBS News, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Kendra, 27, could be heard sobbing in a March 23 phone call obtained by TMZ.
    Lauryn Overhultz, FOXNews.com, 3 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • CampusOne is a third-party company that has been selling NIL opportunities and procured a lot of these deals.
    Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 22 Mar. 2026
  • Arbitration awards are normally upheld so long as the award was not procured by fraud and the arbitrator didn’t fail to consider relevant evidence or follow basic legal principles.
    Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 16 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • But what is ultimately to be gained by making this a hammy, Neil Simon-esque romp?
    Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 31 Mar. 2026
  • The story quickly gained traction across the platform, receiving more than 29,000 upvotes and over 2,600 comments, and turning a single photo into a large-scale online conversation.
    Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • Last week, the area was secured with a padlock on a chain-link fence and the entire area appeared overgrown with signs of invasive plants such as bittersweet.
    Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 5 Apr. 2026
  • Other candidates The rest of the field, for the most part, does not appear to have secured as many high-profile endorsements or raised comparable campaign funding.
    Ethan Varian, Mercury News, 5 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • The North Huntingdon Township Police Department said the homeowner pulled a gun on the utility worker, who was sent to shut off service, and chased him away from his home on Water Street in Ardara.
    Erika Stanish, CBS News, 2 Apr. 2026
  • When Tree City Juice & Smoothie Cafe pulled the plug on its two brick-and-mortar restaurants last year, the closures hit home for Bethany Anderson.
    Michael Deeds, Idaho Statesman, 2 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Instead of programming every step, the researchers simply let these dynamics unfold and then extracted useful information from the outcome.
    Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 4 Apr. 2026
  • Defense attorneys had lined up a Texas lab regarded as one of the most respected in the nation, with the head of that lab testifying that the testing and analysis of any DNA that could be extracted would take two weeks or less.
    Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, The Orlando Sentinel, 3 Apr. 2026
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“Coaxed (out).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coaxed%20%28out%29. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.

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