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to cause (someone) to agree with a belief or course of action by using arguments or earnest request
she persuaded us that she can indeed communicate with the dead he persuaded his teachers to grant an extension
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Recent Examples of persuaded
Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 22 Feb. 2026
He later was persuaded that there would be a role for him.
—ABC News, 21 Feb. 2026
By April, Kabila’s new government was persuaded by the IMF and the World Bank to withdraw from the contract with Gertler after only eight months.
—Nicolas Niarchos, Vanity Fair, 20 Feb. 2026
Results showed Rehmet persuaded a chunk of reliable Republican voters and significant numbers of independents to support him.
—Philip Jankowski, Dallas Morning News, 19 Feb. 2026
His friend persuaded him to come watch, at least, and eventually Merchant agreed to join the league.
—The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Feb. 2026
Van Kleef persuaded him and Het Parool to anonymise Brobbey, arguing that publishing the article could harm him in the middle of a Dutch title race.
—Simon Hughes, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2026
Both juries rejected a defense argument that Alkayyali was under the influence of sudden passion, and would have considered a term of two to 20 years if they were persuaded by the argument.
—Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Feb. 2026
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, 13 Feb. 2026
Verb
Traum wasn’t persuaded by defenses offered by the NCAA.
—Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 22 Feb. 2026
He later was persuaded that there would be a role for him.
—ABC News, 21 Feb. 2026
By April, Kabila’s new government was persuaded by the IMF and the World Bank to withdraw from the contract with Gertler after only eight months.
—Nicolas Niarchos, Vanity Fair, 20 Feb. 2026
Results showed Rehmet persuaded a chunk of reliable Republican voters and significant numbers of independents to support him.
—Philip Jankowski, Dallas Morning News, 19 Feb. 2026
His friend persuaded him to come watch, at least, and eventually Merchant agreed to join the league.
—The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Feb. 2026
Van Kleef persuaded him and Het Parool to anonymise Brobbey, arguing that publishing the article could harm him in the middle of a Dutch title race.
—Simon Hughes, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2026
Both juries rejected a defense argument that Alkayyali was under the influence of sudden passion, and would have considered a term of two to 20 years if they were persuaded by the argument.
—Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Feb. 2026
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, 13 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for persuaded
Adjective
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The man who had recruited him to come there, Dave Bliss, had been chasing him for more than a year, convinced of Bird’s greatness.—
Keith O'Brien,
Rolling Stone,
22 Feb. 2026
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Trump doesn’t care about any of that, so convinced of his own path and his love of the ability to fire off tariffs on a whim.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
22 Feb. 2026
Verb
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But ultimately, the bill satisfied enough legislators to pass both chambers.—
Sophie Hartley,
IndyStar,
18 Feb. 2026
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Gartside seemed aware of a certain potential for racial condescension in his worship of Franklin and unsure of how to resolve it, struggling to offer an explanation that satisfied him of her role in the cosmology of Cupid and Psyche 85.—
Andy Cush,
Pitchfork,
15 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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When betting on a startup’s future potential, Graham is typically more swayed by his impression of its founders than the idea behind their business, the co-founder of startup accelerator Y Combinator wrote in a series of posts on social media platform X on August 10.—
Tom Huddleston Jr.,
CNBC,
18 Aug. 2025
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Business executives, at least some, are less swayed by the hype and more level-headed about the costs and benefits of using AI.—
Shivaram Rajgopal,
Forbes.com,
17 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Oracles are by their nature enigmatic, obscure, gnomic, a mode that the aleatory perambulations of the Eureka engine would seem predisposed toward producing, but narrative also has a venerable tradition of being mechanically generated, despite the seeming complexity of plot.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
21 Jan. 2026
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Are older pop fans more predisposed to embrace The Life of a Showgirl than younger ones?—
Andrew Unterberger,
Billboard,
11 Dec. 2025
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“Persuaded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/persuaded. Accessed 23 Feb. 2026.
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