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verb

past tense of convince

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Recent Examples of convinced
Verb
But now Miami would have to be convinced of bringing in the 31-year-old Beal, who, by picking up his $57 million player option for 2026-27, is still owed $110 million for two seasons after this one. Zach Harper, The Athletic, 6 Jan. 2025 Once and for all, you will be convinced that ranch and pickles are the perfect pairing. Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 5 Jan. 2025 But since 2023, many users have convinced themselves that the billionaire is masquerading as this now-prominent influencer, using a pseudonymous identity to sing his own praises. Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 4 Jan. 2025 California teacher Harriet Glickman had encouraged and eventually convinced Schulz to create a Black character after King’s assassination. Alice George, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Jan. 2025 Not a fan of open-concept homes, but still not convinced that closed, individual rooms are the way to go? Kristine Gill, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Jan. 2025 For his part, Drew wasn't convinced. Chris Foran, Journal Sentinel, 23 Dec. 2024 Still not convinced the puffer is for you? Kristina Rutkowski, Vogue, 23 Dec. 2024 Martin promised to rewrite the song, but Tom Drake — who played Garland’s love interest — convinced him not to scrap it. Victoria Edel, People.com, 23 Dec. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for convinced
Verb
  • Borges also persuaded the detective ultimately responsible for Muller’s arrest, Misty Carausu, to come.
    Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2025
  • Ivana persuaded him to drop his matching plum-colored suits and shoes back in the late ‘70s.
    Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 8 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • She’s costumed like a clown, but her screenplay is as confident as an antihero’s cleverest heist.
    Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2025
  • However, Gomes is confident that the winter moves have given the Dodgers some added adrenaline for 2025 and will offset a potential championship hangover.
    John Perrotto, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Car companies haven’t faced this level of challenge in their long-term product planning and engineering investment since…I’m not sure when.
    Mark Ewing, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2025
  • Investigators were not sure about the relationship with the boy who was killed.
    Noelle Alviz-Gransee, Kansas City Star, 1 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • He was brought here to be a difference maker, brought here with the same kind of Hail Mary the Jets once threw at another aging Green Bay quarterback named Favre.
    Mike Lupica, New York Daily News, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Following these revelations, last week brought the news that Abdullah Ezzeldin Taha Mohamed Hassan, a George Mason University freshman, was charged by federal prosecutors for plotting an attack on the Israeli consulate in New York.
    The Editors, National Review, 24 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • But Devers didn't seem very accepting of the idea of being the team's DH.
    Matt Robison, Newsweek, 18 Feb. 2025
  • No one is more accepting than her, and Chen carries this sanctimoniousness with a loving wink.
    Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 30 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • But human physicians can also be overconfident in their reasoning abilities, and may wrongly ignore correct diagnoses offered by patients, non-physician health workers or AI systems.
    Paul Hsieh, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
  • At the meeting, Hanes seemed oddly nonchalant, exuding the air of an overconfident salesman.
    David Yaffe-Bellany, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Following his release, Powell tracks down the children and marries their unsuspecting mother, using his charm and religious facade to manipulate the family.
    Travis Bean, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2025
  • These operations involve hundreds of thousands of unsuspecting people across Asia and forces them to work under inhumane conditions, with torture and abuse widely reported.
    Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 7 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Their unquestioning, immovable fealty is frightening.
    Neil A. Grauer, Baltimore Sun, 20 Feb. 2024
  • If Trump’s party was no longer delivering wins, then maybe his opponents didn’t need to show him such unquestioning loyalty.
    Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 9 Nov. 2023

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“Convinced.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/convinced. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.

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