persuadable

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Recent Examples of persuadable Can Ukraine get the upper hand here, and are these top advisers going to be persuadable? CBS News, 24 Nov. 2024 The remaining persuadable voters — about 4% of the electorate — tend to consume less information about politics. Noah Bierman, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2024 But the contest is still within the margin of error in essentially every swing contest, and there are few, if any, persuadable voters left. Max Thornberry, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 18 Oct. 2024 Data show there could be as many as 133,000 such voters in Oakland and identifies three groups of persuadable voters, the largest of which is concerned parents. John Wisely, Detroit Free Press, 30 Sep. 2024 See All Example Sentences for persuadable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for persuadable
Adjective
  • Behold the wholesome, impressionable child star from Pennsylvania who went from placing third in The Next Miley Cyrus Project in 2008 to molding art and body to meet an oversexed societal mandate.
    Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Popular figures like athletes and celebrities help fill the space of role models at an age when boys are highly impressionable, according to Sheldon Jacobs, a licensed therapist who serves on the National Alliance on Mental Illness Board of Directors.
    Rachel Hale, USA Today, 13 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Police describe it as a brazen, unsophisticated robbery that occurred around 5:30 p.m. on June 18, targeting a jewelry store on the 5100 block of Mowry Avenue in Fremont.
    Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Although the answer was reasonable for an unsophisticated seller, the listing agent should have required confirmation of licensing status with the Registrar of Contractors.
    Christopher A. Combs, AZCentral.com, 5 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • In The Girlfriend, the truth is malleable, open to change based on our biases, judgments, whimsies, and desires.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2025
  • First-year coach David Adelman seems eager to be malleable with scheme.
    Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 7 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Clearly frustrated, Palencia gave up five runs and recorded zero outs during the ninth inning of that 6-3 loss to the Washington Nationals, a last-place team with a largely inexperienced and nondescript lineup.
    Patrick Mooney, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Having won five straight Ryder Cups and 12 of the last 13, the American team entered as the heavy favorite despite fielding a relatively inexperienced squad.
    Tim Corlett, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Yet there’s always a childlike sense to both his anger and his neediness, having been denied the milk of human kindness by his maker.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Those who ignore this reality are either narcissists or people stuck in a childlike stage of psychological development.
    Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Tranquillity, often simple but rarely simpleminded, may be Ruscha’s essential quality as an artist.
    Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2023
  • But in general election terms, impeachment is a boon for the Democrats, which is why McCarthy is desperately trying to slow-walk these simpleminded drives for vengeance.
    Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 7 July 2023
Adjective
  • The Wall Street veteran was astonished by the Chouinards’ sincere desire to part with their fortune.
    Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Before too long, though, Sacrifice ventures off into much stranger, more sincere territory, becoming a drama that mulls over surrendering to a higher power.
    Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 7 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Channels the inner, bestial urges to release an unworldly howl that pushes back any nearby enemies.
    Oliver Brandt, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Aug. 2025
  • He is known for pioneering overuse of the Auto-Tune effect, giving his vocals an unworldly quality.
    Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 3 June 2025

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“Persuadable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/persuadable. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.

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