convince
Example Sentences
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Around this time, Epstein was trying to set up a philanthropic fund to rehabilitate his image and failing to convince Gates to participate in it.
At the time Alekseyev was filmed sitting with Prigozhin in a Russian military compound taken over by Wagner, trying to convince the mercenary chief to call off his troops.
From Barron's
Some investors in xAI became convinced Musk’s companies should be more intertwined, given the ties the AI firm already had established with them.
The challenge, he added, is that it is almost “impossible to disprove a negative,” or convince investors that “AI isn’t going to disrupt this business.”
Sterner tests will await world number 13 Draper, who is ranked 300 places above Durasovic, but he will be relieved to have rattled through a convincing win after a long spell out.
From BBC
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