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Towards the end of his life, his defence team sought to persuade the court he should be released on humanitarian grounds.

From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026

Researcher and whistleblower Douglas Gowan spent 50 years trying to persuade authorities to investigate what he believed was widespread dumping of industrial chemicals.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

Bankers and management alike will be hoping that the message being sent to investors, that the massive spending on AI capex will generate handsome returns, will persuade them to participate in the equity offering.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026

Despite its globe-trotting kidnapping plot, much of the movie’s tension comes down to people in rooms trying to persuade an old man to part with his money.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026

Mr. Rochester had himself written the direction, “Mrs. Rochester, —— Hotel, London,” on each: I could not persuade myself to affix them, or to have them affixed.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

This is exactly the kind of hype that drives bubbles and persuades ordinary members of the public to take on more risk than they should.

From MarketWatch ● May 27, 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

It inverts the First Amendment’s core purpose: protecting speech that persuades, speech that matters, speech people actually hear.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026

The question now is whether a moment like this, following MI5's intervention, persuades others to share their outlook.

From BBC ● Nov. 19, 2025

Eventually, with the aid of several glasses of champagne, Tsukiko persuades her to abandon the effort, drawing her out into the sunken garden to distract her.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

It was Aimee who persuaded him to invest in somewhere more rural before they even married.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026

After his time on “Dukes,” Jones was persuaded to run for office, challenging a popular Republican incumbent, Pat Swindall, for his seat representing Georgia in the U.S.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

Gilbert persuaded officials of his plan to revive the city: Instead of wooing office tenants, it would mean attracting young, educated residents with money to spend.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026

It looked as though the vendor had raided a secret convention of 1990s elementary-school teachers and persuaded them to turn in their uniforms.

From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026

Also, he and Howard Hiatt had persuaded Lilly to donate large amounts of two of the antibiotics to PIH, and Lilly had promised to give other MDR treatment projects vastly lowered prices.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

They managed something most newcomers to Tinseltown never do: persuading some of its biggest companies to invest heavily in them.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

The Chinese central government has made persuading households to spend more money an economic priority.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026

Last month, Green said his wife's encouragement was crucial in persuading him to accept the challenge after getting a call from JCB chairman Lord Anthony Bamford.

From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026

The biggest challenge has been persuading fishermen to stop catching one of their most valuable species.

From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026

My mother had trouble persuading me to carry one because I was a lady, but I now realized that a handkerchief was an invaluable tool for a counterspy—to erase fingerprints, and so forth.

From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson