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If restaurants, breweries or liquor companies want people to spend money, they have to convince them the experience is worth the cost.

From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026

Despite the top and middle orders again failing to convince, the hosts battled to 152-5 before fast bowler Taskin Ahmed bowled Beau Webster and Australia lost their last five wickets for just 46 runs.

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026

Krook: It took two years to convince him that that was a good idea to sit in the middle of the pyro and do this, but to his credit he did.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

Now wealth and asset managers, eager to prove their worth and in many cases earn more fees, are trying to convince investors to put it to work.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

‘So gradual you could sometimes convince yourself it wasn’t really happening. Till it started speeding up, and it felt like every time we saw her she’d taken another giant turn for the worse.’

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler

The sort of meal that costs very little but somehow convinces you otherwise.

From Salon ● Jun. 16, 2026

He convinces his childhood best friend to let him co-host his son’s wedding alongside a “younger and flashier” wedding MC — played by Gold —who had already been hired.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 7, 2026

He gives me a virtual hug and convinces me to convince my husband that the pancakes in the freezer should be saved for my return and a new batch prepared for today’s breakfast.

From Slate ● May 10, 2026

On bad days, she says, she convinces herself that “doomscrolling flat on my couch is what helps my back heal.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 12, 2026

“What’s better,” asks Dylan, “hoping Magnus convinces enough people to feel sorry for you or going up there and taking a spot you should already have?”

From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston

Comparisons with modern spadefoot toads eventually convinced him that the differences represented something else entirely.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026

He was a defensive end as a freshman before Rosenblum convinced him to become a blocker.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026

The more people I interviewed, the less convinced I became that it is.

From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026

If you are convinced that mortgage rates, currently around 6.7%, are going to collapse again, you don’t have to buy a home to benefit.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026

“I am not convinced about this wallpaper, Mrs. Clarke. It is very leafy.”

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

Speaking at a rally overnight before the result was declared, Farage said he had pulled off a "convincing, overwhelming win" in the by-election.

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

"It is a convincing, overwhelming win, with more votes than we got in the General Election of 2024," Farage said in a statement.

From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026

Airbnb built a multibillion-dollar hospitality platform by convincing travelers to “forget hotels.”

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026

Those arguments are less convincing in the face of the accelerated automation that artificial intelligence appears ready to unleash.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

Javier nods, but his attempt at a smile looks more pained than convincing.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera