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Recent Examples of inveigle
Unlike his small-time Israeli rivals, the placards implied, Netanyahu was a savvy statesman who punched above his weight on the international stage, thanks to his unaccented English oratory and ability to inveigle the world’s most powerful people.
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Yair Rosenberg,
The Atlantic,
22 May 2025
On hand for the séance is a thoroughly skeptical Poirot, inveigled to attend by a mystery-novelist friend, Ariadne Oliver.
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Mark Feeney,
BostonGlobe.com,
11 Sep. 2023
Norman Mailer tried to inveigle his dinner guests into an orgy, and not long after wrote a cruel letter to Styron, breaking off their friendship.
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Marion Winik,
Washington Post,
15 June 2023
Another threat that is likely to inveigle itself into the Web3 domain is phishing.
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Andrew Newman,
Forbes,
4 May 2022
All of those thinly veiled efforts to inveigle an answer are met with a stock response.
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New York Times,
26 Nov. 2021
The two cell-surface proteins that SARS-CoV-2 uses to make contact with its target cells and inveigle its way into them would fit into this category.
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The Economist,
20 Aug. 2020
Yair Rosenberg,
The Atlantic,
22 May 2025
On hand for the séance is a thoroughly skeptical Poirot, inveigled to attend by a mystery-novelist friend, Ariadne Oliver.
—
Mark Feeney,
BostonGlobe.com,
11 Sep. 2023
Norman Mailer tried to inveigle his dinner guests into an orgy, and not long after wrote a cruel letter to Styron, breaking off their friendship.
—
Marion Winik,
Washington Post,
15 June 2023
Another threat that is likely to inveigle itself into the Web3 domain is phishing.
—
Andrew Newman,
Forbes,
4 May 2022
All of those thinly veiled efforts to inveigle an answer are met with a stock response.
—
New York Times,
26 Nov. 2021
The two cell-surface proteins that SARS-CoV-2 uses to make contact with its target cells and inveigle its way into them would fit into this category.
—
The Economist,
20 Aug. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inveigle
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But by that point, the banks were so overwhelmed that they could, at least in theory, be persuaded to settle for far less than they were owed.
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Contributors know Percy’s films often become the defining accounts of major events, which helps persuade them to take part.
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The writer thinks that the person seducing the main character is just some flotsam, hardly worth a second look.
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Blyth was nominated in the supporting role as Mildred's spoiled daughter, Veda, who seduces her mother's second husband (Zachary Scott), then riddles him with bullets in a jealous rage.
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Obviously, Donnie being over there was enticing to me.
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For American diners of diverse backgrounds, chop suey struck an enticing balance between novelty and decipherability, which propelled it to national popularity even as the US government moved to exclude Chinese laborers from entering the country in 1882.
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Police say the violence on Sydney’s streets is being orchestrated from abroad – and teenagers are being lured into the complex web of gang warfare with the promise of fast cash.
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According to an overseas report by BasketNews, Denver’s backup center is prepared to sign a contract with the Lithuanian Euro League team Zalgiris Kaunas — an unsurprising development after Panathinaikos tried to lure him away from the NBA after the Nuggets traded for him last summer.
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Known as Vision 2030, profits from gas and oil have been pumped into the development of a leisure infrastructure to tempt tourists and boost the level of business to local companies.
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Although some folks advise using a shortcut, don’t be tempted to use your oven.
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Since then, West Germany beat France on penalties after a 3-3 draw in the 1982 semi-final in Seville, recovering from a 3-1 deficit in extra time.
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Luca is a draw in New York and Los Angeles, certainly.
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“Inveigle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inveigle. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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