suggestible

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Recent Examples of suggestible That humans were so suggestible seemed like something science would need to account for. Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023 In the easily suggestible Western imagination, the mosque has often been cast as a site of sinister machinations. M. Z. Adnan, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2023 The crowd proved particularly suggestible during this number. Chris Willman, Variety, 30 Apr. 2023 Clipping electrodes onto your earlobes can leave you suggestible. Alice Bradley, Health, 9 Mar. 2023 See All Example Sentences for suggestible
Recent Examples of Synonyms for suggestible
Adjective
  • The results were hilarious, but Gould also won hearts as the affable (if a bit gullible) victim of the ruse.
    EW Staff, EW.com, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Chamberlain was gullible and naïve, and Chamberlain’s appeasement to Hitler is considered one of the biggest betrayals in modern history.
    Tom Zirpoli, Baltimore Sun, 11 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • However, those with pre-existing heart or lung conditions, children, older adults, and people who are pregnant are particularly vulnerable.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Apr. 2025
  • However, despite these framework implementations, many businesses are still vulnerable to cyber threats.
    Vytautas Kaziukonis, Forbes.com, 24 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • But the ride for Palantir has been far from smooth, and shares have been susceptible to volatile swings.
    Samantha Subin, CNBC, 28 Apr. 2025
  • Tovar, for example, researches specific genes that make people more susceptible to diabetes, which affects about 38 million Americans, including some who don't respond well to existing treatments.
    Brett Kelman, NPR, 28 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have given fraudsters a host of new tools to trick unwary individuals into dishonest schemes.
    Ranjita Iyer, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025
  • That’s because the agency’s duty is to stand in the way of businesses desiring to push unsafe and ineffective nostrums at unwary consumers, and also in the way of a perverse idea that personal freedom includes the freedom to be gulled by charlatans.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Ravi asks, an astoundingly naive question for a show like 9-1-1.
    Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 18 Apr. 2025
  • In the February 1984 issue: Latin America: A media stereotype Over time, Vargas Llosa realized that this kind of reflexive leftism was naive.
    Ilan Stavans, The Atlantic, 15 Apr. 2025

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“Suggestible.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/suggestible. Accessed 6 May. 2025.

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