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prod

verb as in poke at

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The negotiations continued to falter for the next several months as the Israeli leader resisted prodding from the White House.

They lost everything but each other, and for Daisy’s sake, as much as his own, he has pushed and prodded, eager to get home.

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She says she confronted Bietz and his daughter after she saw him leaning over the sea lion and prodding it with a knife.

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After working for several years as a federal public defender, she decided to run for judge at the prodding of a mentor.

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The final straw came when a cleaner was filmed restraining the elderly man and violently shaking the bed frame before prodding him with a walking stick.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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