persuasive
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Jennifer Burns tells in her biography of Friedman how the members of the Cowles Commission decamped for Yale rather than stay in Chicago and face his persuasive arguments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
A reader is hard-pressed to resist becoming a poetry stan, so persuasive is Garmus’ Batter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
Ladies and gentlemen, I must be pretty persuasive, because I got both.”
From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2026
Mr. Rasmussen makes Douglass’s conversion vivid and persuasive; Mr. Rebeiro exposes its jurisprudential machinery with impressive precision, even when that machinery clanks a little.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Citra cleared her throat and tried to be her most persuasive self.
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
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