- present participle of coax.
coaxing
Example Sentences
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And if you’re familiar with Martin Best, the curmudgeonly doctor with an almost permanently furrowed brow portrayed by Charles, the character’s willingness to don such a getup likely took some coaxing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
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
“Frontier research is actually just about coaxing the models into behaving the way you want them to,” said James Donovan, OpenAI’s former head of cognitive outcomes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
Great TV imbues its fiction with a soul, coaxing us to view fully crafted characters as beings of flesh and blood, or constructed unscripted scenarios as truth.
From Salon ● Jun. 20, 2026
Almost imperceptibly, Isa’s violin gentled, as if coaxing “Les Furies” into submission.
From "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street" by Karina Yan Glaser
