goad
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Mr. Warsh avoided hints during his post-meeting press conference about the future path of interest rates, despite reporters’ best efforts to goad him.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026
The economy lacks other spurs to goad it into faster growth.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 9, 2026
Tommy Lasorda had to goad Hershiser into becoming a bulldog.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2025
There’s plenty of footage showing Springer using his power as the show’s host to goad subjects into fights, call their romantic choices sick or depraved, or even crack jokes about their situation.
From Salon ● Jan. 7, 2025
Why is he trying to goad me into giving up?
From "Divergent" by Veronica Roth
One seeks out a key piece of Parkinson's-causing RNA, while the other goads the cell to chop it to pieces for recycling.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 9, 2024
In body camera footage released by police in June, an officer sprints into the parking lot and apparently goads on Rodriguez-Nuñez, who is standing beside several smoldering vehicles.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 10, 2022
But it's still the dinner rush, and my phone goads me with the familiar chime of incoming offers.
From Salon ● Sep. 10, 2022
If that’s not enough meta-weirdness for you, throughout the movie, Nick regularly converses with a younger, cockier version of himself, “Nicky,” who goads him to recapture his former stardom.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2022
This only goads them into talking further, in lowered voices, their heads leaning in toward each other.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
A second complainant told jurors he had kissed Bowen in a café after being "goaded" into it by other boys.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
Mr. Warsh resolutely refuses to be goaded into making news at post-FOMC press conferences.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
For example: When music legend Stevie Wonder phoned to congratulate Starr on a Grammy nomination, she goaded him into a playful argument about zodiac signs.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
His mother was furious and goaded his father to discipline him.
From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026
I mean, yes, I was goaded, but the truth is, I wanted to see it.
From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly
Rather than respond directly to the company, Muddy Waters took to X, where it posted a meme goading SoFi to “run that game.”
From Barron's ● Mar. 18, 2026
Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who has been goading Albany to soak the rich, responded to the proposals: “I’m grateful.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 11, 2026
Artists got an idea for a Museum of Contemporary Art off the ground in 1979, goading the wealthy and influential powers that be into action.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 1, 2025
It was as if they were goading Scotland now.
From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2025
Alan scowls at me, not sure if I’m being sincere or goading him.
From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland
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