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As a grandson who lived with him frantically packed a car, Nickerson refused all entreaties to evacuate.—
Los Angeles Times Staff,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Jan. 2025 -
Esme forgoes a generic entreaty at the feet of her girlboss and instead makes a cunning personal plea for better judgment from her mentor.—
Angelica Jade Bastién,
Vulture,
26 Dec. 2024
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She was charged with indecent assault, corruption of minors, inducement of minors with liquor and giving false reports to law enforcement.—
Saleen Martin,
USA TODAY,
17 Jan. 2025
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The filing also details various financial activities, including a public offering in February 2024 that raised net proceeds of $5.4 million and a warrant inducement that provided net cash proceeds of $3.5 million.—
Quartz Bot,
Quartz,
8 Nov. 2024
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Instead, judges in the United States have the independence to choose law over the orders or exhortations of any politician.—
Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell,
Newsweek,
15 Jan. 2025
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The speech doesn’t quite fit the categories of Oval Office address we are used to — not an announcement or a pep talk or an exhortation for action.—
James Poniewozik,
New York Times,
30 Dec. 2024
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Impressed by the senator’s blandishments, the egoistic journalist argues military strategy and then faces a moment of conscience.—
Armond White,
National Review,
17 May 2023
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People want to hear blandishments about engagement and infrastructure.—
Rory Smith,
New York Times,
14 Apr. 2023
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All presidents have used leverage, often combined with moral suasion, personal relationships, public appeals, and other efforts, to attain their objectives in international affairs.—
Richard Fontaine,
Foreign Affairs,
5 Oct. 2020
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Moral suasion can be even more powerful than policy.—
Arthur C. Brooks,
Foreign Affairs,
13 Feb. 2017
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The goal is to understand the seduction of fascism, why so many people fell for Mussolini’s message then, and why so many are falling for a similar message today.—
Scott Roxborough,
The Hollywood Reporter,
31 Dec. 2024
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Satan’s seduction of Eve had to define the very idea of what seduction was: an act of irresistible trickery on the part of the seducer; a moral and an intellectual failing on the part of the seduced.—
Merve Emre,
The New Yorker,
16 Dec. 2024
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The Eagles had a 87.1% conversion rate with the Tush Push for three years with Jason Kelce at center, per Next Gen Stats.—
Sam McDowell,
Kansas City Star,
27 Jan. 2025
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After the Eagles tied the score with a touchdown and two-point conversion — both on Jalen Hurts runs — with 5:15 left in the fourth quarter, Mahomes engineered a game-winning field goal drive.—
Peter Sblendorio,
New York Daily News,
27 Jan. 2025
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“Cajolery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cajolery. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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