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 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
Verb
  • For another, the pandemic-era shift to remote work almost certainly convinced companies that some positions needn’t be filled at all.
    — Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2026
  • Fariala was convinced that the young man was the right person to play the lead role.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of convinced
Verb
  • 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
Verb
  • Cameron induced 58 swings and 17 whiffs, per Baseball Savant.
    — Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 6 Aug. 2026
  • Dylan Dodd came on in relief with a man on in the seventh, and induced a fly ball and ground ball double play to keep the shutout intact.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 5 Aug. 2026
Definition of induced
Verb
  • 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
Verb
  • To sleuth out who the culprits are, Murashige lends on the extra-sharp deductive skills of Kanbei, who implored for death rather than imprisonment.
    — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Mullin implored governors to work with the department to help achieve that goal.
    — Luke Barr, ABC News, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of implored
Verb
  • 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
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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