coax

From the first hint of cold winter mornings, supermarkets and pharmacies begin heavy marketing to coax us to stock up on vitamin C to get through the cold and flu season.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026

Zookeepers will need to coax every bird, reptile, fish and mammal - from the largest rodents in the world to the greenest katydids - to the weighing scale.

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026

The day was in the low 70s, and a breeze was coming through our kitchen window; I decided I would not mind standing at the stove long enough to coax the squash toward sweet collapse.

From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026

It’s no secret that some members of the Fed’s rate-setting committee favor interest-rate hikes to coax inflation back down.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 26, 2026

He went down again and managed to coax Bull up on his hands and knees.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

Thanks to cultivation techniques, the Huntington coaxes the plants to bloom every two to three years, not four to six like they do in their natural habitat, where they’re endangered.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026

And to read that structure, the painting coaxes you to decide from what perspective you are viewing the scene.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026

There, Mark finds Gemma serenely disassembling the crib, and coaxes her to run with him.

From Salon ● Mar. 22, 2025

It’s not until Pointer coaxes her to take off her artificial leg, leaving her dependent on him, that her internal alarm bells start to go off.

From Slate ● Mar. 29, 2024

She coaxes them past the shelter’s threshold to go to the ocean, which most have never seen.

From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario

Under O’Neil’s proposed new model, LIV players would become its majority owners, with equity stakes replacing the enormous checks that originally coaxed them to join.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

And the French pianist Michel Petrucciani, who, as a brilliant and precocious teenager in the 1980s, coaxed Mr. Lloyd out of a decade-long hiatus.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026

The Loch Ness monster appeared on screen before being magically coaxed on to the stage by Outlander star Sam Heughan.

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026

They coaxed, cajoled, begged and beseeched for support to bring the tournament to North America.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 7, 2026

He added more wood and coaxed the smoke into flames, then headed out in search of food.

From "Touching Spirit Bear" by Ben Mikaelsen

Instead, he found his friends gathered around his mother, who was making her way towards him, gently coaxing the farm animal behind her.

From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026

After some coaxing from family, Ramirez realized he was perfectly equipped to create mobile kitchens from scratch.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026

The woman crouches, coaxing the animal with sweet compliments and a stick of sugarcane she brought with her.

From Slate ● May 27, 2026

It was not about coaxing the maximum possible pleasure out of a cut of meat.

From Salon ● Apr. 10, 2026

A coaxing voice, a grinning tone: lean Sergeant Corse, a bowlegged aide.

From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara