winning over

NOUN

persuasion

Synonyms

STRONGEST

seduction

STRONG

alignment blandishment brainwashing cajolery cogency con conversion enticement exhortation force goose hook inducement persuasiveness potency power pull sell squeeze wheedling

WEAK

alluring arm-twist hard sell inveiglement promote snow job soft soap sweet-talk working over

Antonyms

WEAK

discouragement dissuasion hindrance prevention

Example Sentences

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But controlling an animal’s food supply is an effective way of winning over its trust.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 21, 2026

Eastwood was once a proper three-way marginal, with all three of the parties winning over 30% of the vote in 2016.

From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026

Those email promos are too good at winning over consumers — 72% of online shoppers have made an impulse purchase after seeing an advertised discount, according to Capital One Shopping.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 31, 2026

And Anthropic’s coding tool, Claude Code, was winning over software engineers across Silicon Valley thanks to its ability to write software programs without much oversight.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

These guys wanted to know exactly how to go about winning over the people.

From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers

winning over

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