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as in to cajole
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as in to bamboozle
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Recent Examples of fast-talk
The second book in Amanda Weaver’s Racing Hearts series follows fast-talking, no-nonsense Violet Harper, a woman with a successful PR career and zero interest in falling in love.
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Amy James, People.com, 28 June 2025
Flamboyant, fast-talking Southerner Georgia stands out among the fussy, provincial New England set.
—Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2025
For as much as Anderson’s films call for his actors to flatten their delivery, his first foray into stop-motion animation picked up the pace considerably, and Clooney zips right along with his character’s fast-talking schemes.
—Joe Reid, Vulture, 12 June 2025
After attending Vallejo Junior College, Stone got a job as a fast-talking DJ at San Francisco R&B station KSOL, where his eclectic taste stoked his popularity, working the new British bands like The Beatles, The Animals and The Stones into the station’s soul format.
—Roy Trakin, HollywoodReporter, 9 June 2025
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Amy James, People.com, 28 June 2025
Flamboyant, fast-talking Southerner Georgia stands out among the fussy, provincial New England set.
—Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2025
For as much as Anderson’s films call for his actors to flatten their delivery, his first foray into stop-motion animation picked up the pace considerably, and Clooney zips right along with his character’s fast-talking schemes.
—Joe Reid, Vulture, 12 June 2025
After attending Vallejo Junior College, Stone got a job as a fast-talking DJ at San Francisco R&B station KSOL, where his eclectic taste stoked his popularity, working the new British bands like The Beatles, The Animals and The Stones into the station’s soul format.
—Roy Trakin, HollywoodReporter, 9 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fast-talk
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In that regard, her journalism was well removed from the kind of journalism-as-PR that exists so much today — even with all the fruit baskets her assistants would send the assistants of potential interviewees to cajole them into setting up a sit-down.—
Christian Blauvelt,
IndieWire,
12 June 2025
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Americans’ uneven history with civil rights has long been a drag on their government’s power to cajole allies and rivals alike to a shared goal.—
Philip Elliott,
Time,
28 July 2025
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Mark Lippman, Boca Raton A message to young Democrats: You’ve been misled and bamboozled long enough.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
3 Aug. 2025
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The movie depicts Nashville as a town full of hayseeds who are bamboozled by the fast-talking Reynolds.—
Keith Sharon,
Nashville Tennessean,
2 Feb. 2025
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In the video, Munn, who shares her daughter and 3-year-old son Malcolm with actor husband John Mulaney, 42, is holding her little girl excitedly, coaxing her to repeat it on camera.—
Kayla Grant,
People.com,
11 Aug. 2025
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Its land is farmed communally, and its lord, Master Kent (Harry Melling), is a benevolent soul who prefers coaxing and rewarding to ordering and punishing.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
8 Aug. 2025
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Shadows betray their trees, their heads bare, their necks a guide for the hungry.—
Nima Hasan
August 15,
Literary Hub,
15 Aug. 2025
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However, tensions arose when Juno betrayed David by leaking classified information to a terrorist network led by Hugo Maldonado.—
Isabella Wandermurem,
Time,
13 Aug. 2025
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None of it, though, has convinced Putin to change course.—
Daniel DePetris,
Time,
7 Aug. 2025
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The main hurdle the prosecution faces is convincing the jury that he was primarily motivated not by opposition to Israel, the country, but by religious bigotry.—
Brady Knox,
The Washington Examiner,
6 Aug. 2025
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What’s worse, picking up the morning paper and seeing what the bastards are doing, and just complaining and bitching about it?—
Bill Kearney,
Sun Sentinel,
13 July 2025
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The bitching and leaving early just makes the fan base look entitled and lacking in football common sense.—
Art de Roché,
The Athletic,
24 Feb. 2025
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In the framework of conversational intelligence, most workplace communication falls into Level 1 (telling) or Level 2 (persuading).—
Susan Curtin,
Forbes.com,
5 Aug. 2025
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But Newsom clearly believes those hurdles can be overcome in California and that voters can be persuaded to forge a realignment to help Democrats.—
Michael Smolens,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
3 Aug. 2025
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But don’t be fooled by the red planet’s Venusian trance.—
Valerie Mesa,
People.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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Wild horses often nap on the sand like beachgoers — but don’t be fooled.—
Evan Moore
August 4,
Charlotte Observer,
4 Aug. 2025
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