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Recent Examples of suggestible
That humans were so suggestible seemed like something science would need to account for.
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Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023
In the easily suggestible Western imagination, the mosque has often been cast as a site of sinister machinations.
—M. Z. Adnan, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2023
The crowd proved particularly suggestible during this number.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 30 Apr. 2023
Clipping electrodes onto your earlobes can leave you suggestible.
—Alice Bradley, Health, 9 Mar. 2023
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Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023
In the easily suggestible Western imagination, the mosque has often been cast as a site of sinister machinations.
—M. Z. Adnan, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2023
The crowd proved particularly suggestible during this number.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 30 Apr. 2023
Clipping electrodes onto your earlobes can leave you suggestible.
—Alice Bradley, Health, 9 Mar. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for suggestible
Adjective
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Their nation now appeared vulnerable and gullible in the eyes of the world—and they’d been cheated out of $7,000.—
Peter Zablocki,
Smithsonian Magazine,
4 Feb. 2025
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But this young man has shown me how others see me now: old, gullible, vulnerable.—
Fabiola Santiago,
Miami Herald,
30 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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The song manages to be vulnerable and hilarious and also sort of meta.—
Abby Aguirre,
Vogue,
11 Feb. 2025
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Freezing temperatures may present health risks, especially for vulnerable groups such as infants and older adults.—
Justin Gest,
Newsweek,
11 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Active ETFs, which trade in real-time, are also more susceptible to market swings unlike mutual funds which price once a day, Nicholson added.—
Lee Ying Shan,
CNBC,
13 Feb. 2025
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The latest development raises concerns about whether dairy cows may be more susceptible to the bird flu, which would increase the risk of cow-to-human transmission.—
Vanessa Etienne,
People.com,
11 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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That’s because the agency’s duty is to stand in the way of businesses desiring to push unsafe and ineffective nostrums at unwary consumers, and also in the way of a perverse idea that personal freedom includes the freedom to be gulled by charlatans.—
Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Jan. 2025
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What results from this corporate retrenchment is unknown, but the trends are clear, and the paths forward are strewn with mind fields for the unwary or unprepared business leader. Follow me on LinkedIn.—
Timothy J. McClimon,
Forbes,
4 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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From there sprung Brian, played by Lou Taylor Pucci, an alien who looks like a new-age guru in a tracksuit, and, depending on the scene, can be naive, manipulative, aloof, romantic, cruel and even self-pitying.—
William Earl,
Variety,
28 Jan. 2025
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Things were exacerbated by naive decisions made by United players on both sides of the ball.—
Carl Anka,
The Athletic,
19 Jan. 2025
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“Suggestible.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/suggestible. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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