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as in to cajole
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as in to bamboozle
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Recent Examples of fast-talk
Audiences would join the show in progress, see Chase as a fast-talking anchor and fall right in.
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Scottie Andrew, CNN Money, 1 Jan. 2026
Rising amid the central sierras of Spain, this is the late-night city of Dalí and Hemingway, Ronaldo and Picasso, and those fast-talking '80s melodramas by Pedro Almodóvar.
—Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Dec. 2025
The stranger is a fast-talking American named Edgar Acheson who claims to be a Hollywood movie director.
—Heller McAlpin, Christian Science Monitor, 18 Nov. 2025
And Kiritsis, as Skarsgård plays him (with a jittery but logical fast-talk fervor that makes this one of the actor’s two or three most potent performances), is a very different figure than the real Tony Kiritisis, who was older and more visibly deranged.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 2 Sep. 2025
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Scottie Andrew, CNN Money, 1 Jan. 2026
Rising amid the central sierras of Spain, this is the late-night city of Dalí and Hemingway, Ronaldo and Picasso, and those fast-talking '80s melodramas by Pedro Almodóvar.
—Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Dec. 2025
The stranger is a fast-talking American named Edgar Acheson who claims to be a Hollywood movie director.
—Heller McAlpin, Christian Science Monitor, 18 Nov. 2025
And Kiritsis, as Skarsgård plays him (with a jittery but logical fast-talk fervor that makes this one of the actor’s two or three most potent performances), is a very different figure than the real Tony Kiritisis, who was older and more visibly deranged.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 2 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fast-talk
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To cajole people into eating snacks laden with spicy gherkin flavor, the folks at Frito Lay need to get themselves out of a real pickle.—
Brian Steinberg,
Variety,
26 Mar. 2026
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And six years later, Donovan is still prodding and cajoling the forward to crash the boards and control his dribble and contribute physically to the game.—
Julia Poe,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Mar. 2026
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Way back in 2018, Gaines and Riley were running split-back formations and leaving opposing defenses bamboozled while playing for the 12-and-under Moreno Valley Falcons in the heart of Southern California.—
Shaun Goodwin,
Idaho Statesman,
27 Mar. 2026
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The point of all this wasn't so much to bamboozle the enemy as to place a strong sense of uncertainty in their minds.—
David Szondy
March 25,
New Atlas,
25 Mar. 2026
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The final arrangement is a mystery revealed only after it’s coaxed out of its mold.—
Megan Paetzhold,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
5 Apr. 2026
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In a leafy New Jersey suburb, Baratta set out to coax Barley, a mix of pit bull, beagle and shepherd, into the afternoon air with a wind chill pushing the temperature down into the 20s.—
Cathy Bussewitz,
Fortune,
4 Apr. 2026
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Sean is tested when his longtime friend and employee Jorge (Trey Santiago-Hudson) finds out about all of Sean’s changes and feels betrayed — Sean’s new sous chef gig means the end of the food truck, which Jorge was relying on.—
Ashley Boucher,
Entertainment Weekly,
1 Apr. 2026
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Our tiny hero, Catclaw, is a young moth and a member of the Dreamkins, a noble moth clan that has gone into exile after its former master betrayed the clans’ queen.—
Caroline Carlson,
Literary Hub,
1 Apr. 2026
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Diana’s makeup artist convinced her to ditch blue liner in the ‘90s.—
Bailey Bujnosek,
InStyle,
4 Apr. 2026
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Operation Ajax, a joint CIA-British operation, convinced the Shah of Iran, the country’s monarch, to dismiss Mossadegh and drive him from office by force.—
Jeffrey Fields,
The Conversation,
4 Apr. 2026
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Dorit is in town bitching to Boz, who is in a hormonal haze, and Rachel about the same thing.—
Brian Moylan,
Vulture,
23 Jan. 2026
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Those who bitched over not making the final four now were going to get a chance to prove themselves on the field of play.—
Nick Canepa,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 Dec. 2025
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Whale lusts after a hunky gardener (Brendan Fraser) and persuades him to pose for a few sketches; Julian, though bisexual, expresses no such interest in Lori, and any art-making turns out to be a gratifyingly mutual endeavor.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
3 Apr. 2026
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Gerhardt Konig hoped Thursday to persuade a Hawaiian jury that hitting his wife repeatedly with a rock was self-defense.—
April 2,
CBS News,
3 Apr. 2026
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Don't let some cloudy skies fool you.—
Brian Smith,
Des Moines Register,
25 Mar. 2026
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But don’t let its stillness in the videos fool you.—
Andrés Muedano,
JSTOR Daily,
25 Mar. 2026
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“Fast-talk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fast-talk. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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