PREVAILED (UPON) Synonyms: 42 Similar Words

prevailed (upon)

verb

past tense of prevail (upon)

as in urged

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The department urged residents to secure access points to crawlspaces and to remove anything that would attract the coyote from the outside of their homes.

— Alys Martinez, CBS News, 12 Aug. 2026
Trump called Jones last month and urged him to meet with Jackson, who defeated Jones in a GOP primary in June, according to three people with direct knowledge of the conversation who aren’t authorized to speak publicly about the exchange.

— Greg Bluestein, AJC.com, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of urged

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Still, Harbaugh was encouraged that at the end of Thursday’s marathon practice, his players actually begged him for one extra play in the red zone.

— Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 7 Aug. 2026
Trump voiced frustration at Iran’s public posturing, suggesting the country’s leaders begged for the discussions, despite their claims of only wanting to deal with Oman.

— Elena Becatoros, Chicago Tribune, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of begged

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But Ormund’s real secret weapon is Ulf, who has suffered enough indignity at the hands of the Blacks, or so he’s been persuaded.

— Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 3 Aug. 2026
The kingdom must be persuaded to accept the full scope of IAEA safeguards, including the intrusive inspections required by the Additional Protocol.

— Yoel Guzansky, Foreign Affairs, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of persuaded

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Mullin implored governors to work with the department to help achieve that goal.

— Luke Barr, ABC News, 4 Aug. 2026
And this was the exact type of situation that I had been emphatically implored to avoid by the Polish detective who told us to head for the Georgian-Turkish border.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 31 July 2026

Definition of implored

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Rituals are performed, oaths proposed and broken, and tensions escalate as the unburied body decays.

— Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 10 Aug. 2026
One theory, proposed in seminal papers by the Italian hydrologist Andrea Rinaldo and colleagues in the early 1990s, says that river networks are elongated at large scales because this is the most energy-efficient way of transporting water downhill.

— Natalie Wolchover, Quanta Magazine, 10 Aug. 2026

Definition of proposed

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At Sunday's service, the first since the expiry of TPS protections, Toussaint exhorted his congregants to persevere.

— ABC News, ABC News, 5 Aug. 2026
In 2009, fearing a far-right resurgence, Tony Judt exhorted a recovery of the social-democratic ethos that had guided postwar Europe.

— Cynthia Zarin, Harpers Magazine, 28 July 2026

Definition of exhorted

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