as in coaxed
to get (someone) to do something by gentle urging, special attention, or flattery
wheedled him into doing their work for them
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Around 380 million years ago, ankle-high greenery shot to the sky in strange, towering forests that coaxed fish and invertebrates ashore to try out life on land.—
Peter Brannen,
Quanta Magazine,
15 Sep. 2025 -
The goal of the study was to see whether or not participants could be coaxed into valuing a specific trait more purely based on experience alone.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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“Wheedled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wheedled. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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