inveigled

past tense of inveigle

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Verb
  • Andrew had what was viewed as a cast-iron lease, but was persuaded to abandon it.
    Jack Royston, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2025
  • The impact of the project on the club’s balance sheet has been pronounced, so much so that Laporta persuaded socios to temporarily suspend article 67 of the club’s statutes, which limits the level of debt Barcelona can carry.
    Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Farrell plays John, the ambitious and chatty servant who is seduced by the mistress of the house (Jessica Chastain), as a nervous bundle of energy who becomes more agonized and frantic over the course of the film.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Countless service members were seduced by the region’s beauty and fair weather and chose to settle here.
    Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Police were dispatched to the scene and the owner eventually lured the pet back down to the ground by bribing it with a cookie.
    Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 31 Oct. 2025
  • By late January, the last four escapees were recaptured after being lured back into captivity by peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.
    Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 31 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Africa’s leading banking groups are targeting DR Congo, enticed by one of the continent’s fastest-growing economies and the promise of a lucrative mining sector, despite the ongoing conflict in the country’s east.
    Alexander Onukwue, semafor.com, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Miami should have purged the roster even more, shipping off starters for draft picks, but apparently none of the bids enticed Ross and his minions, who are the individuals really calling the shots now.
    Omar Kelly November 4, Miami Herald, 4 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • In the five years just before war set in, these were among the dwellings that had beguiled Heinz Gaube (1940–2022), a German academic at the Oriental Seminar of the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 25 Oct. 2025
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“Inveigled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inveigled. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.

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