PREVAILING (ON OR UPON) Synonyms: 52 Similar and Opposite Words

prevailing (on or upon)

verb

present participle of prevail (on or upon)

as in convincing

to cause (someone) to agree with a belief or course of action by using arguments or earnest requests we prevailed on him to sing in front of all his friends

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With Goncalo Ramos joining AC Milan from the back-to-back Champions League holders, there is a vacant striker’s spot with Luis Enrique possibly convincing Ferran to follow Dro Fernandez’s lead and swap FC Barcelona for PSG.

— Tom Sanderson, Forbes.com, 11 July 2026
In reality, Disney spent roughly two decades trying to acquire the rights before finally convincing Travers to travel to California in 1961.

— Britt Hayes, Entertainment Weekly, 9 July 2026

Definition of convincing

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Numbers like that are persuading brands to start treating in-game ads and product placements as a serious channel rather than a spare-budget experiment.

— Manal Albarakati, semafor.com, 15 July 2026
But the deportation officers also had other means of persuading the holdouts.

— Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 13 July 2026

Definition of persuading

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Typhoon Bavi weakened to a severe tropical storm after making landfall in eastern China's Zhejiang province but was still bringing strong winds and heavy rain to eastern China on Sunday.

— ABC News, ABC News, 12 July 2026
So bringing them all in just keeps them from being siloed and gives them more to work with.

— Max Gao, Variety, 11 July 2026

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