persuadable

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Recent Examples of persuadable But the contest is still within the margin of error in essentially every swing contest, and there are few, if any, persuadable voters left. Max Thornberry, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 18 Oct. 2024 But there is a bigger share of these persuadable voters who are trying to decide between a third-party or writing in or just staying home. Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 18 Oct. 2024 The point is to reach voters who may not be paying attention or are still persuadable. Ted Johnson, Deadline, 11 Oct. 2024 The network said the town halls will take place before a live audience of persuadable and undecided voters from Pennsylvania. Brian Stelter, CNN, 10 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for persuadable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for persuadable
Adjective
  • And Parker Posey’s impressionable accent alone is sticky enough to keep her top of mind with TV Academy members.
    Marcus Jones, IndieWire, 18 Apr. 2025
  • After the talk, he was approached by a graduate student named Ian Mertz, who’d fallen in love with catalytic computing five years earlier after learning about it as an impressionable young undergrad.
    Ben Brubaker, Wired News, 30 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The group writes its malware in relatively unsophisticated scripting languages like VBScript and Powershell rather than the C++ used by savvier hackers.
    Andy Greenberg, Wired News, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Each of those words is unsophisticated alone and devastating when strung together.
    Joel Stein, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Unlike most bias-mitigation efforts that prioritize English, this dataset is malleable, with human translations for testing a wider breadth of languages and cultures.
    Reece Rogers, Wired News, 23 Apr. 2025
  • Studies have also shown that physicians’ imaging behaviors are malleable.
    Jesse Pines, Forbes.com, 17 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Determined to reconnect with the childlike joy of making music, Seavey aimed to create something fun and meaningful.
    Kristen Wisneski, Billboard, 7 Mar. 2025
  • There’s this very childlike quality to him.
    Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Tranquillity, often simple but rarely simpleminded, may be Ruscha’s essential quality as an artist.
    Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2023
  • But in general election terms, impeachment is a boon for the Democrats, which is why McCarthy is desperately trying to slow-walk these simpleminded drives for vengeance.
    Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 7 July 2023
Adjective
  • The rest of the evening was largely an energetic affair that oscillated between sincere appreciation and light humor, the latter of which began for co-host and winner Gold early in the event.
    Abbey White, HollywoodReporter, 17 Apr. 2025
  • Their deep anxiety about the Rust situation seems sincere.
    Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 14 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • While there are countless superhero stories flooding the TV landscape, Emma Moran's Extraordinary soars with its down-to-earth, Boys-esque twist, where being a hero isn't all it's cracked up to be and unworldly abilities aren't just devices for destruction.
    Alex Galbraith, EW.com, 24 Sep. 2024
  • Buruma, who excels at setting a rather unworldly man in the public life of his time, describes how, in 1672, a mob in The Hague lynched Johan and Cornelis de Witt, brothers who had led the Netherlands’ liberal regime during what is now remembered as the Dutch Golden Age.
    Adam Kirsch, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
Adjective
  • In California, individuals must possess a permit to touch or handle owls, so the owl could not be pet by the partygoers, but the group still enjoyed looking at and learning about the wide-eyed bird.
    Ashlyn Robinette, People.com, 23 Apr. 2025
  • What connects that fourth-place season under Howe and the early years of Kevin Keegan’s first spell as manager was that wide-eyed sense of possibility and buzz, how every win felt like a miracle.
    Chris Waugh, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2025

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“Persuadable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/persuadable. Accessed 29 Apr. 2025.

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