arm-twisting
Example Sentences
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Teaching is “like an elixir of youth” for Cummins, said Coletti, who wasn’t surprised to hear that it took a bit of arm-twisting for Cummins to open her door to me.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2026
According to Luna, the arm-twisting from leaders, offering a mix of carrots and sticks, was intense.
From Slate ● Apr. 2, 2025
And arm-twisting ByteDance will not work, analysts say.
From BBC ● Apr. 18, 2024
“He was very good at making it in people’s interests to be cooperating with him. I don’t know if he did arm-twisting exactly. It was implicit, I would say.”
From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2023
“It took endless arm-twisting to get the French authorities to release the blueprints to make these sets. And while we believe they are exact, we don’t know for certain what’s in here.”
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
