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Recent Examples of persuasive You’re known to be a very persistent and persuasive person. Zak Cheney-Rice, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2025 Topics range widely, and can be informative or persuasive in nature. Matthew Carey, Deadline, 25 Aug. 2025 This is a pioneering use of old, ephemeral tech to invent new, eternal cinema, that is so persuasive of its own whimsical worldview that to emerge 186 minutes later is to feel slightly attacked by the garish, hi-def sharpness of reality, and to wonder where all the wonder has gone. Jessica Kiang, Variety, 17 Aug. 2025 Noni Madueke provides a persuasive rotation option on the flanks. James McNicholas, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for persuasive
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Adjective
  • The Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program has been active since 2010, compelling more than 8,000 facilities and suppliers in the United States to report their climate pollution every year, and uses the data to help shape rules to reduce the amount of pollution in the air.
    Ella Nilsen, CNN Money, 12 Sep. 2025
  • For a daily driver, the third-generation Leaf is rather compelling, especially the S+, although the lack of heated front seats in that model might be too much of a deal-breaker, considering how important seat heaters are to EV efficiency in winter.
    Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 12 Sep. 2025
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  • Rather, the goal is to maximise investment returns – Mounsey-Heysham and his co-founders just happen to believe the best way to do that is to identify companies with convincing answers to large and seemingly intractable societal problems.
    David Prosser, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
  • The judges jumped in to suggest Kilaru’s analogies weren’t so convincing in the context of a football player like Pavia, who has a limited window to earn NIL money.
    Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 16 Sep. 2025
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  • The findings were intriguing, but not conclusive.
    Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Trans athletes and their advocates, meanwhile, say there is a lack of consistent, conclusive research to support this claim and argue trans people deserve the right to compete with their peers.
    Dakin Andone, CNN Money, 10 Sep. 2025
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  • Washington counts Qatar as a strong Gulf ally.
    Jarrett Renshaw, USA Today, 13 Sep. 2025
  • The audio-streaming platform has amassed a sizable free cash flow due to its strong revenue growth, a figure that has been boosted by the company's swelling active user base in recent financial quarters.
    Liz Napolitano, CNBC, 12 Sep. 2025

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“Persuasive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/persuasive. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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