dissuade

as in to discourage
to steer (a person) from an activity or course of action tried to dissuade her from her intention to drop out of college

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Recent Examples of dissuade If Channel 14 is Netanyahu’s Fox News, Magal is its Tucker Carlson—an object of such devotion that his fans have to be dissuaded from charging the stage to take selfies with him during commercial breaks. Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025 Regardless of whether the protests meaningfully impact Amazon's operations, the public attention could dissuade some customers from ordering out of fear of a possible delay, experts said. Max Zahn, ABC News, 23 Dec. 2024 DiVincenzo’s body language did little to dissuade the rumor-mongers. Jon Krawczynski, The Athletic, 30 Dec. 2024 Outside government, too, a network of U.S. scholars, think tank researchers, activists, and former officials that support nonproliferation have engaged in parallel Track II dialogues with South Korean elites in an attempt to dissuade them from nuclearization. Robert E. Kelly, Foreign Affairs, 30 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for dissuade 

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“Dissuade.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dissuade. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.

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