DREW IN Synonyms: 39 Similar and Opposite Words

drew in

verb

past tense of draw in

as in persuaded

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But the $1,000 incentive persuaded the couple, whose daughter Maya was born in late March, to start an account anyway.

— ABC News, ABC News, 22 July 2026
But the threat alone has persuaded some ships to abandon their plans to exit the Red Sea heading south.

— David Goldman, CNN Money, 22 July 2026

Definition of persuaded

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On a night with smoke in the air from Canadian wildfires, New York led on an unearned run against Roki Sasaki in the fourth.

— ABC News, ABC News, 17 July 2026
Those who wildflower risk being led on or taken advantage of by those treating the trend as merely excuse to not commit, set clear boundaries or adhere to any standards.

— Charles Trepany, USA Today, 28 May 2026

Definition of led on

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There are songs for each segment, which include Goofy cleaning up, a dark turn with Daisy in a power outage and snowed-in Pluto.

— Dewayne Bevil, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 May 2026
The insulation from the ceiling snowed down onto virtually every part of the building — exhibits, artifacts, galleries and display cases.

— Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Apr. 2026

Definition of snowed

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Before that, in a trend which lasts to this day, the very best players were always tempted away, to Italy or Spain, towards salaries that German football could never provide.

— James Pearce, New York Times, 22 July 2026
The economic argument for central bank independence rests on the idea that a politically motivated central bank might be tempted to exploit that short run tradeoff to juice the economy at the long run expense of price stability.

— Steve Liesman, CNBC, 22 July 2026

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