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as in to cajole
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as in to bamboozle
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Recent Examples of fast-talk
Hollywood has always had an affinity for schemers and maybe that’s because show business is run by similar types: High on their own supply of overconfidence and fast-talking obfuscation.
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Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 13 Nov. 2024
The 54-year-old sounds every inch the same fast-talking, outspoken journalist who dominated TV screens more than two decades.
—Danielle Bacher, People.com, 20 Nov. 2024
But during ninety remarkably fast-talking minutes in New York—verbally, both candidates are speed demons—the Ohio senator J. D. Vance moved the narrative of the race in a small but perceptible way toward the Republican side.
—Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2024
In this classic, charming romantic comedy, Cary Grant plays a newspaper editor who uses every trick in the book to keep his fast-talking ex-wife (Rosalind Russell), also a reporter for the newspaper, from remarrying.
—EW.com, 30 Sep. 2024
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Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 13 Nov. 2024
The 54-year-old sounds every inch the same fast-talking, outspoken journalist who dominated TV screens more than two decades.
—Danielle Bacher, People.com, 20 Nov. 2024
But during ninety remarkably fast-talking minutes in New York—verbally, both candidates are speed demons—the Ohio senator J. D. Vance moved the narrative of the race in a small but perceptible way toward the Republican side.
—Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2024
In this classic, charming romantic comedy, Cary Grant plays a newspaper editor who uses every trick in the book to keep his fast-talking ex-wife (Rosalind Russell), also a reporter for the newspaper, from remarrying.
—EW.com, 30 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fast-talk
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The bell rings for a second time and the players get up from their seats, cajole one another and walk down the tunnel, studs clattering and adrenaline pumping.—
Stuart James,
The Athletic,
17 Jan. 2025
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Curators also cajole museums, galleries, artists, and private collectors around the country into loaning artworks.—
Chadd Scott,
Forbes,
8 Jan. 2025
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Jadon Sancho’s sumptuous dummy, bamboozling Chris Richards, and cross had set up Cole Palmer for the opener early on and Chelsea should really have extended their lead by the break.—
Liam Twomey,
The Athletic,
4 Jan. 2025
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Cocker’s lessons covered addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, as well as calculation with pre-decimal British currency and a gentle introduction to 17th-century England’s bamboozling array of weights and measures.—
James Fox,
Smithsonian Magazine,
19 Dec. 2024
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Prairie-Rocca barricaded himself for about 90 minutes before the police were able to coax him out, Law & Crime reported.—
Gabrielle Rockson,
People.com,
6 Jan. 2025
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At the Hammer Museum, walking into a small veiled room brought you to a large glass box within which live bees build honeycomb patterns on top of sculptures that coax those patterns into works of art.—
Monisha Ravisetti,
Space.com,
4 Jan. 2025
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Because the sailboats were slower than motorboats, often alone and barely armed, the Nazis didn’t view them as worthy targets, especially since any attack would betray their location.—
David Wolman,
Smithsonian Magazine,
8 Jan. 2025
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Sure, their penalty killing and goaltending are what ultimately betrayed them in this game, and the penalty kill, so good most of the season, is suddenly becoming a big problem.—
Josh Yohe,
The Athletic,
7 Jan. 2025
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And just like that, Young had his groove back: Throwing in rhythm, anticipating receivers coming open, making off-platform throws — all the things that had convinced the Panthers to trade DJ Moore and four high draft picks to Chicago to take Young at No. 1.—
Joseph Person,
The Athletic,
15 Jan. 2025
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Yet the Fed has struggled with the last leg of its inflation battle in pushing the CPI to a 2% annual rate, and December's reading could convince the central bank to hold off on another rate cut at its next meeting, scheduled for Jan. 29.—
Aimee Picchi,
CBS News,
15 Jan. 2025
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Who triumphs over the greatest challenge of his political career and then can’t stop bitching about the cabinet member who just failed to unseat him?—
Sophie Brookover,
Vulture,
31 Oct. 2024
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Rebels fight the redcoats, Ben Franklin bitches about his politically backward son, and America gains its independence.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
1 Nov. 2024
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As Trump has threatened to increase tariffs on all Chinese imports, China agreeing to sell TikTok to a US buyer could help persuade Trump to diminish those blows, the thinking goes.—
Ars Technica,
Ars Technica,
14 Jan. 2025
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Sometimes, for example, rogue loan officers or real estate agents persuade an elderly homeowner to sign false loan documents and keep the proceeds for themselves.—
LEW SICHELMAN,
Miami Herald,
14 Jan. 2025
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The attackers disguise themselves as fake Google Ads login pages to fool advertisers, who are then phished for their account credentials.—
Davey Winder,
Forbes,
16 Jan. 2025
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However, others have questioned how she was so easily fooled.—
Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell,
Newsweek,
16 Jan. 2025
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“Fast-talk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fast-talk. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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