dissuading

Example Sentences

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Police stopped, questioned and frisked those suspected of carrying weapons or casing a business, dissuading the ill-intentioned from packing guns while reducing shootings.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026

Parallel talks on gas supplies are also underway, as Russia has been offering only short-term contracts in recent months -- a tactic Vucic has said was aimed at dissuading Serbia from seizing NIS.

From Barron's • Nov. 25, 2025

I'm not the only skeptical of how the shallow manipulations of TikTok are dissuading people from having more meaningful, if more slow-moving, experiences in the real world.

From Salon • Jan. 19, 2025

As a result, it crowds out potential search competitors from the market altogether, while dissuading others from even getting into the search game.

From Slate • Aug. 6, 2024

Had I succeeded in dissuading Hamlet from revenge?

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein