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verb

past tense of persuade

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Recent Examples of persuaded
Verb
Four lobbyists who persuaded their clients to pay tour expenses, but did not report them, now face misdemeanor violations of the gift ban. Charlotte Observer, 15 July 2026 These alerts were what had persuaded Roschelle to buy an Alexa when her daughters were five and six. Jessica Contrera, New Yorker, 13 July 2026 While there, the nurse practitioner persuaded her to inject her nose with hyaluronic acid, but the injection ended up blocking an important artery, affecting blood flow to the eyes, according to Campos. Michelle Marchante july 10, Miami Herald, 10 July 2026 He was not persuaded by NCAA arguments that the manual is not a contract between the NCAA and students who play varsity sports. Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 9 July 2026 Don’t allow yourself to be so easily persuaded — use your discernment! Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 8 July 2026 Arriving officers encountered an unsuspecting and armed individual at the home in the 16400 block of Bormet Drive, but persuaded him drop the gun, police said. Dennis Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 8 July 2026 They’re less persuaded by explanations that blame individuals and more willing to point to system design, a perspective that can unsettle leadership cultures accustomed to control rather than critique. Frantz M. Berthaud, STAT, 7 July 2026 Having successfully persuaded corporate America to give their products a try, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google are now struggling to prove that their tools are worth the money. Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 7 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for persuaded
Adjective
  • Markets don’t seem convinced that relief is around the corner.
    Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 20 July 2026
  • During construction, Wright insisted that his design would perform, but on-site builders were less convinced and added more structural steel to the concrete slabs without the architect’s knowledge.
    Elizabeth Fazzare, Architectural Digest, 14 July 2026
Verb
  • Kuwait is known to be overwhelmingly dependent on desalination for drinking water, with almost 90% of the arid nation’s water demand satisfied through seawater desalination plants.
    Michael Wayland,Azhar Sukri,Terri Cullen, CNBC, 18 July 2026
  • The bánh cuốn đặc biệt — a combination plate with plain steamed rice sheets, sheets stuffed with ground pork and mushroom and pieces filled with shrimp — satisfied my internet FOMO cravings.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2026
Adjective
  • One man who isn’t swayed is Japan’s richest investment mogul, SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son.
    Joe Wilkins, Futurism, 16 July 2026
  • Most teams, in fact, decided from the start that pitchers were not in the best position and were liable to be too emotionally swayed to be entrusted with ABS challenges.
    Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 May 2026
Adjective
  • Last year, 30 percent of lefties were pronator-biased (and therefore more predisposed to throwing a good non-splitter changeup) versus 26 percent of righties.
    Eno Sarris, New York Times, 11 May 2026
  • 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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“Persuaded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/persuaded. Accessed 23 Jul. 2026.

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