prevailed (upon)

verb

past tense of prevail (upon)
as in urged

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for prevailed (upon)
  1. urged
  2. convinced
  3. begged
  4. induced
  5. persuaded
  6. implored
  7. proposed
  8. exhorted
Verb
  • The alert urged residents in the affected area to leave immediately and travel east on FM 2210.
    — Mateo Rosiles, USA Today, 25 Aug. 2026
  • Anyone with information about the shooting is urged to contact Independence police at 816-325-7330 or the anonymous TIPS Hotline at 816-474-8477.
    — Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of urged
Verb
  • Deco had previously monitored names such as Victor Osimhen of Galatasaray and Manchester City’s Omar Marmoush, but none of them fully convinced all of the club’s decision-makers.
    — Andy Naylor, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026
  • These women can become depressed, isolated, paranoid — convinced their thinning hair is all other people see.
    — Maggie Ryan, Flow Space, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of convinced
Verb
  • In 2020, it was set to be bulldozed, until Mowery begged to give her three months.
    — Lee Cowan, CBS News, 9 Aug. 2026
  • 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
Definition of begged
Verb
  • To find out, the team induced brief artificial hibernation in mice engineered as an epilepsy model, just before seizures had developed in the animals.
    — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 22 Aug. 2026
  • Yet these subjects are often united by a kind of nostalgia—or more precisely, the kind of nostalgia induced by pop culture artifacts.
    — Geoffrey O’Brien, The New York Review of Books, 22 Aug. 2026
Definition of induced
Verb
  • Stuart Evey, who oversaw who oversaw Getty Oil’s investments outside its core oil business, persuaded the company's board to invest $10 million for an 85% stake.
    — Nicole Kraft, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026
  • Last summer, Curtis persuaded them to join Citizen Historians, a grassroots effort to monitor Smithsonian exhibitions for political interference.
    — Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of persuaded
Verb
  • In his final plea to the jury, Barrett implored them to consider the injuries suffered by the survivors, some with wounds in their arms and legs and one who survived a gunshot to the head, indicate Edgar didn’t intend to kill them.
    — Cristóbal Reyes, The Orlando Sentinel, 24 Aug. 2026
  • Authorities implored all of them to leave and be prepared to stay away for several days, because shifting and strengthening winds were expected to make the fire even more unpredictable.
    — John Raby, Christian Science Monitor, 23 Aug. 2026
Definition of implored
Verb
  • The administration further proposed ending data collection on racial disparities in school discipline.
    — Claire Sibonney, CBS News, 24 Aug. 2026
  • No penalties are proposed for parents or children, but tech firms could be fined up to 10% of their global revenue for failing to meet their obligations.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 24 Aug. 2026
Definition of proposed
Verb
  • 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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