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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
Audiences would join the show in progress, see Chase as a fast-talking anchor and fall right in.
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Scottie Andrew, CNN Money, 1 Jan. 2026
Rising amid the central sierras of Spain, this is the late-night city of Dalí and Hemingway, Ronaldo and Picasso, and those fast-talking '80s melodramas by Pedro Almodóvar.
—Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Dec. 2025
The stranger is a fast-talking American named Edgar Acheson who claims to be a Hollywood movie director.
—Heller McAlpin, Christian Science Monitor, 18 Nov. 2025
And Kiritsis, as Skarsgård plays him (with a jittery but logical fast-talk fervor that makes this one of the actor’s two or three most potent performances), is a very different figure than the real Tony Kiritisis, who was older and more visibly deranged.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 2 Sep. 2025
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Scottie Andrew, CNN Money, 1 Jan. 2026
Rising amid the central sierras of Spain, this is the late-night city of Dalí and Hemingway, Ronaldo and Picasso, and those fast-talking '80s melodramas by Pedro Almodóvar.
—Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Dec. 2025
The stranger is a fast-talking American named Edgar Acheson who claims to be a Hollywood movie director.
—Heller McAlpin, Christian Science Monitor, 18 Nov. 2025
And Kiritsis, as Skarsgård plays him (with a jittery but logical fast-talk fervor that makes this one of the actor’s two or three most potent performances), is a very different figure than the real Tony Kiritisis, who was older and more visibly deranged.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 2 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fast-talk
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Cash cajoled Leon Bailey into positions ahead of him, either shuffling backwards to mark Newcastle’s left-winger or shifting inside to track Lewis Hall, who was inverting from left back.—
Jacob Tanswell,
New York Times,
26 Jan. 2026
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Her mentor, 2012-2020 Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, cajoled the BOJ into cornering the government bond market and becoming the biggest owner of Tokyo stocks.—
William Pesek,
Forbes.com,
23 Jan. 2026
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Lenders are more easily bamboozled by fake spreadsheets than by fake factories.—
Liz Hoffman,
semafor.com,
11 Nov. 2025
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And now, a class action has been filed against Spotify for allegedly bamboozling consumers.—
Winston Cho,
HollywoodReporter,
5 Nov. 2025
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Renée coaxed a complete sentence.—
Richard Greenberg,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Feb. 2026
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Maye has done both without much coaxing this postseason.—
Dieter Kurtenbach,
Mercury News,
5 Feb. 2026
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But when Canada fell behind 4-0 late in the second period, all Poulin could do was watch tonight, betraying no emotion and with her chin in her hand when shown on a videoboard.—
Sean Nevin,
NBC news,
10 Feb. 2026
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Then, the emails in the latest Epstein files dropped, leaving his closest associates feeling betrayed.—
Charisma Madarang,
Rolling Stone,
9 Feb. 2026
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Chamadia, for one, is convinced.—
Ayushi Shah,
CNN Money,
8 Feb. 2026
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George Washington was trying to be convinced to run for a third and refused.—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
7 Feb. 2026
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Those who bitched over not making the final four now were going to get a chance to prove themselves on the field of play.—
Nick Canepa,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 Dec. 2025
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Finally, all this time of me bitching about, like my band not working, and this and that, all of a sudden, both are working, and again, knock on that wood.—
Devin Robertson,
MSNBC Newsweek,
26 Sep. 2025
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But multiple Democratic senators said that's not enough to persuade them to back off their demands.—
Riley Beggin,
Arkansas Online,
14 Feb. 2026
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Renato Renner of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich is not persuaded that resolving the conflict between the Copenhagen and many-worlds interpretations solves all the problems.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
13 Feb. 2026
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These ads may not have fooled as many of us as their makers seemed to think.—
Steven Zeitchik,
HollywoodReporter,
9 Feb. 2026
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And don’t let the utilities and their friends fool you.—
Kendall Keelen,
Hartford Courant,
8 Feb. 2026
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“Fast-talk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fast-talk. Accessed 14 Feb. 2026.
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