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to cause (someone) to agree with a belief or course of action by using arguments or earnest request
she persuaded us that she can indeed communicate with the dead he persuaded his teachers to grant an extension
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Recent Examples of persuaded
Ronan Farrow, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026
But these lopsided outcomes have not persuaded the media to treat the war as an American strategic success.
—Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 3 Apr. 2026
Cortés did not bring trebuchets from Europe but had been persuaded to build them mid-siege by an eager soldier who supposedly had experience with them.
—Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Apr. 2026
Those meetings persuaded Hill and Robinson that the Black community broadly supported an effort to obtain desegregation rather than mere improvements in the separate Black schools.
—Jonathan Entin, The Conversation, 2 Apr. 2026
Nichols also wasn’t persuaded that PASPA is a barrier to the sportsbooks.
—Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 31 Mar. 2026
One of Godard’s Swiss friends persuaded a pair of friends in Geneva to lend Godard a 35 mm film camera for the shoot, and one of these Geneva friends also served as cinematographer.
—Literary Hub, 31 Mar. 2026
The jury found that the trooper and another radioed a false location to headquarters before entering the apartment, and one of them decided to plant a gun at the scene afterward before his partner persuaded him against it.
—Lawrence Mower, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 Mar. 2026
The jury found that the trooper and another radioed a false location to headquarters before entering the apartment, and one of them decided to plant a gun at the scene afterward before his partner persuaded him against it.
—Alexandra Glorioso, Miami Herald, 26 Mar. 2026
Verb
By late 2015, Musk was persuaded.
—Ronan Farrow, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026
But these lopsided outcomes have not persuaded the media to treat the war as an American strategic success.
—Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 3 Apr. 2026
Cortés did not bring trebuchets from Europe but had been persuaded to build them mid-siege by an eager soldier who supposedly had experience with them.
—Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Apr. 2026
Those meetings persuaded Hill and Robinson that the Black community broadly supported an effort to obtain desegregation rather than mere improvements in the separate Black schools.
—Jonathan Entin, The Conversation, 2 Apr. 2026
Nichols also wasn’t persuaded that PASPA is a barrier to the sportsbooks.
—Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 31 Mar. 2026
One of Godard’s Swiss friends persuaded a pair of friends in Geneva to lend Godard a 35 mm film camera for the shoot, and one of these Geneva friends also served as cinematographer.
—Literary Hub, 31 Mar. 2026
The jury found that the trooper and another radioed a false location to headquarters before entering the apartment, and one of them decided to plant a gun at the scene afterward before his partner persuaded him against it.
—Lawrence Mower, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 Mar. 2026
The jury found that the trooper and another radioed a false location to headquarters before entering the apartment, and one of them decided to plant a gun at the scene afterward before his partner persuaded him against it.
—Alexandra Glorioso, Miami Herald, 26 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for persuaded
Adjective
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Tommie and her family were later convinced to move to the federal Indian reservation in what is now Hollywood, according to a Sun Sentinel news article from 2015.—
Scott Travis,
Sun Sentinel,
4 Apr. 2026
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Friedman, best known for his work on economic mobility with the Harvard economist Raj Chetty, has become convinced that the most important thing a student gets from an Ivy Plus education isn’t instruction or prestige or even connections.—
Rose Horowitch,
The Atlantic,
4 Apr. 2026
Verb
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The president satisfied his own ego, displaying no patience, as other bloodthirsty warlords throughout history.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
26 Mar. 2026
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Miami also declined to offer Jovic, though there’s no indication that his inclusion would have satisfied Phoenix.—
Barry Jackson,
Miami Herald,
22 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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As fans stood for the opening run, a sprawling 23-piece backing ensemble — including six band members, eight backing vocalists plus returning Church muse Joanna Cotten, and a mini-orchestra with four horns and four strings — some swayed.—
Theoden Janes,
Charlotte Observer,
6 Apr. 2026
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When betting on a startup’s future potential, Graham is typically more swayed by his impression of its founders than the idea behind their business, the co-founder of startup accelerator Y Combinator wrote in a series of posts on social media platform X on August 10.—
Tom Huddleston Jr.,
CNBC,
18 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Oracles are by their nature enigmatic, obscure, gnomic, a mode that the aleatory perambulations of the Eureka engine would seem predisposed toward producing, but narrative also has a venerable tradition of being mechanically generated, despite the seeming complexity of plot.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
21 Jan. 2026
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Are older pop fans more predisposed to embrace The Life of a Showgirl than younger ones?—
Andrew Unterberger,
Billboard,
11 Dec. 2025
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“Persuaded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/persuaded. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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