persuade

The new Fed Chair seems to appreciate that he has to persuade a diverse audience, inside and outside the central bank, to make his reforms durable.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

I haven’t seen anything to persuade me that there’s not going to be any environmental damage.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026

The actor made the arrangements after seeing a video of the students pleading with him to persuade their head teacher Daniel Woodrow to take them to see the movie.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026

It’s almost like they weren’t even trying anymore to persuade people who weren’t already persuaded.

From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2026

“But why should you wish to persuade me that I feel more than I acknowledge?”

From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen

This persuades Denyer that investing in U.S. grid plays, natural gas companies, as well as solar and wind, is a sensible strategy right now.

From MarketWatch ● May 8, 2026

Kolar explained that, besides actual innocence, “disproportionality is the second most powerful” argument that persuades clemency boards and governors.

From Slate ● Mar. 6, 2026

I would need to see something that would persuades me that, yes, that's OK now, that will be OK.

From BBC ● Feb. 26, 2026

Giving students real money to invest persuades them to do deeper research and be more risk-averse about possible picks, he adds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 8, 2026

When you paint with that ink it may physically be black but it suggests to your eye and persuades your seeing that it is all the colors in the world.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

It’s almost like they weren’t even trying anymore to persuade people who weren’t already persuaded.

From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2026

Peter Ellis, 63, a retired film editor, said he was not persuaded by AT&T’s argument that he should get his emergency phone service through the internet.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026

Mr. Mandelbaum isn’t persuaded by critics who contend that this constant looking back over their shoulders by U.S. policymakers “degrades the effectiveness of the nation’s foreign policies beyond its borders.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

It is a remarkable feat for London City to have persuaded Putellas to join as they continue to show lofty ambitions.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026

Told there was a costume party ashore, Hudson was persuaded to dress in a bedsheet with a teapot lid tied with ribbons to his head.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong

A lot of the day-to-day work for a champion like Glazer involves knocking on colleagues’ doors and persuading them to actually try the tools in the first place.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026

It's named after the feted New York club where Madonna got an early break by persuading DJ Mark Kamins to play her debut single, Everybody.

From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026

Davis describes in his book persuading Simon & Garfunkel to release those albums back-to-back.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026

Influencers stand to profit persuading men there’s a widespread “masculinity crisis,” the researchers found, noting that 72% of the accounts they analyzed had a stake in testosterone supplements and treatments.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2026

The unstinting efforts of this office in persuading Muggles that all photographic evidence of the Loch Ness kelpie is fake have gone some way to salvaging a situation that at one time looked exceedingly dangerous.

From "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" by J.K. Rowling