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as in convinced

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verb

past tense of persuade
as in satisfied
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
Verb
But by that point, the banks were so overwhelmed that they could, at least in theory, be persuaded to settle for far less than they were owed. — Paula Aceves, Curbed, 26 June 2026 Those massive market gains have persuaded stockholders to spend. — David Goldman, CNN Money, 29 June 2026 Mangembo persuaded her family to call an ambulance, but her sister died in the hospital two days later. — Emmet Livingstone, NPR, 24 June 2026 Jenna put the records up on her screen, but Nekhala had a hard time reading the documents and eventually persuaded her to send them to him. — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 24 June 2026 School board member Kelly Gonez persuaded her colleagues to begin exploring it in 2019. — Melissa Gomez, Los Angeles Times, 4 July 2026 The 26-year-old midfielder was injured for the match in Minsk and reportedly only decided to take the flight as a last-minute decision after being persuaded to do so by his team-mates. — Colin Millar, New York Times, 27 June 2026 Some commissioners were persuaded by Tuesday’s presentation to throw their support behind sticking with the existing plan to build all three facilities or going with the alternative that leaves the most of the plan intact. — Mary Ramsey, Charlotte Observer, 24 June 2026 According to the New York Times, Doyle persuaded London dealer Patrick Matthiesen to send him Courbet’s Mother and Child on a Hammock, painted around 1848, after promising to broker its sale. — Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 29 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for persuaded
  1. convinced
  2. satisfied
  3. swayed
  4. predisposed
Adjective
  • In The Caine Mutiny (1954), the paranoid Captain Queeg (Humphrey Bogart) becomes convinced, with no evidence, that someone is stealing strawberries from the freezer.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 5 July 2026
  • Gage, for one, isn’t convinced that consumers care much about semiquincentennial marketing one way or the other, though.
    — Annie Joy Williams, The Atlantic, 3 July 2026
Definition of convinced
Verb
  • The deal would not have satisfied Cuba's spiraling energy needs.
    — Romina Ruiz-Goiriena, USA Today, 6 July 2026
  • One of the daily specials, a creamy risotto accented with a bold red pepper puree and blackened shrimp, caught my eye and satisfied my cravings for something comforting.
    — Heidi Finley, Charlotte Observer, 30 June 2026
Definition of satisfied
Adjective
  • Most teams, in fact, decided from the start that pitchers were not in the best position and were liable to be too emotionally swayed to be entrusted with ABS challenges.
    — Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 May 2026
  • 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
Definition of swayed
Adjective
  • Last year, 30 percent of lefties were pronator-biased (and therefore more predisposed to throwing a good non-splitter changeup) versus 26 percent of righties.
    — Eno Sarris, New York Times, 11 May 2026
  • 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
Definition of predisposed

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