persuasive
adjective
per·sua·sive
pər-ˈswā-siv 
-ziv
: tending to persuade
persuasively
adverb
persuasiveness
noun
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Examples of persuasive in a Sentence
We weren't shown any persuasive evidence that he had committed the crime.
a persuasive argument for increasing funding of the city's library system
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Juan Pablo Spinetto, Twin Cities, 9 Feb. 2025
But as Davenport articulates both in his statement referenced above and throughout his passionate and persuasive film, the question of whether disabled people deserve the right to die is also a question of whether they are afforded the ability to live.
—Esther Zuckerman, IndieWire, 27 Jan. 2025
Her persuasive charisma won others to the cause of historic preservation and the movement gained momentum to the point that it is now taken for granted that things could have been any different.
—Aldo Svaldi, The Denver Post, 24 Jan. 2025
Editors’ Picks How Big Tech Mined Our Attention and Broke Our Politics
Those explanations have not been persuasive to the government’s critics.
—Emma Bubola, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2025
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“Persuasive.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/persuasive. Accessed 13 Feb. 2025.
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persuasive
adjective
per·sua·sive
pər-ˈswā-siv
-ziv
: tending to persuade
a persuasive argument
persuasively
adverb
persuasiveness
noun
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