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as in wheedling
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as in bamboozling
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In a bid to rekindle the couple’s honeymoon phase, Yasmin troubleshoots by wheedling a chief executive role for him at payment processing company Tender (run by Max Minghella‘s inscrutable puppet-master Whitney Halberstram), and throwing her husband a lavish costume party for his 40th birthday.—
Natalie Oganesyan,
Deadline,
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Brill, in his groove as another kind of wheedling Irish American observer, is now the harried camera operator apologizing for the delays.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
18 Nov. 2025
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The story involves brainwashing, betrayal, double-crossing and foreign meddling.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes,
5 Nov. 2024
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In the past, Thrash conducted the auctions by herself, cajoling regular American attendees to open their purse strings.—
Miles Socha,
Footwear News,
26 May 2026
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There will also be a familiar face cajoling and encouraging, in the background as well as on the main public stages.—
Kamal Ahmed,
Fortune,
13 May 2026
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At the end of the second season, multiple armies were mustering for war over King's Landing as the Targaryen clan just couldn't stop betraying each other long enough to govern.—
K. Thor Jensen,
PC Magazine,
12 June 2026
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The West is betraying 'liberal values' for a genocidal fascist foreign government.—
Anhelina Shamlii,
CBS News,
1 June 2026
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Once an engine of radical social upheaval, the Chinese Communist Party is coaxing its citizens toward conservative lifestyles in line with its traditional culture.—
Timothy Nerozzi,
The Washington Examiner,
17 Nov. 2025
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Desert plants spring back to life The burst of rain has transformed desert hillsides and neighborhoods, coaxing plants out of dormancy.—
Hayleigh Evans,
AZCentral.com,
13 Nov. 2025
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North Korea has supplied troops to Russia which has also been accused of tricking citizens of other countries such as India to fight.—
Shane Croucher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 Nov. 2025
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Candidates are looking to cut through the noise by tricking AI filters, while recruiters are drowning in a flood of applications, and companies are posting ghost jobs.—
Nino Paoli,
Fortune,
18 Nov. 2025
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OpenAI has not had a stable or even convincing lead on major AI benchmarks for many months.—
Matteo Wong,
The Atlantic,
9 Dec. 2025
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The two adults kept the secret for decades, convincing themselves that silence was the only way to survive.—
Isabella Wandermurem,
Time,
2 Dec. 2025
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But O’Malley writes that this is deceiving.—
Livia Gershon,
JSTOR Daily,
9 June 2026
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Stop deceiving yourself into the comfort that learning AI skills and tools alone will save you.—
Rachel Wells,
Forbes.com,
19 May 2026
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“Fast-talking.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fast-talking. Accessed 18 Jun. 2026.
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