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as in cajoling
to get (someone) to do something by gentle urging, special attention, or flattery
trying to coax their father into taking them on a ski trip, the teens mentioned what a great skier he is
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Recent Examples of coaxing
Sean Timberlake, Sacbee.com, 27 Dec. 2025
When Dad came home with every flavor of bagel the bakery sold, their son wasn't interested in eating anything despite lots of coaxing.
—Karen Cicero, Parents, 21 Dec. 2025
Once an engine of radical social upheaval, the Chinese Communist Party is coaxing its citizens toward conservative lifestyles in line with its traditional culture.
—Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 17 Nov. 2025
One of his former teachers was still there, coaxing students to line up neatly.
—Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2025
But coaxing nematodes is tricky and time-consuming, so Ortega-Jiménez collaborated with Ranjiangshang Ran, a postdoc studying fluid mechanics at Emory University, who ran computer simulations of thousands more jump trajectories.
—Cody Cottier, Scientific American, 23 Oct. 2025
Amidst the pandemic, sitting down at my machine was one reliable way of coaxing order from chaos.
—Literary Hub, 22 Oct. 2025
But so far, Jones should feel major vindication for giving Schottenheimer the gig, because Schottenheimer is coaxing the best football out of quarterback Dak Prescott.
—Lawrence Dow, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 21 Oct. 2025
In the video, Munn is holding her little girl excitedly, coaxing her to repeat it on camera.
—Kayla Grant, PEOPLE, 21 Oct. 2025
Verb
Teams clustered around three cauldrons, coaxing different worts to temperature in preparation for fermentation.
—Recent Examples of Synonyms for coaxing
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But Putin cannot have needed much persuading to agree to a formal invitation to the US to have the bilateral meeting his team have long held out as the way towards peace in Ukraine.—
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In the framework of conversational intelligence, most workplace communication falls into Level 1 (telling) or Level 2 (persuading).—
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For generations, the Fed declined to use it, instead cajoling the private sector to pick up the tab for costly bank failures.—
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Although Texas, Missouri, Ohio and North Carolina went along, Indiana did not -- despite cajoling and insults from the president and the possibility of primary challenges.—
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Checkers can see your shortcuts, your reportorial wheedling, your blind spots.—
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And this new college football world — where players are free agents every year — has dramatically benefitted Miami because of the Canes’ knack for luring top players (Cam Ward, Carson Beck, many others) and their financial wherewithal to offer them competitive NIL deals.—
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It's revealed that this beauty drug is infecting people with a virus that leads to death, luring in an investigation by FBI Agents Cooper Madsen, played by Evan Peters, and Jordan Bennett, played by Rebecca Hall.—
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This pho has gone viral online, rightfully wooing diners while honoring its Vietnamese roots.—
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While the likes of McDonald’s and Subway have hardly vanished from terminals, concessions companies are increasingly wooing popular local eateries and celebrity chefs to bring their signature menu items to the traveling public.—
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The video featured a tired Madonna running into a mysterious man and woman in a hotel hallway, with the two seducing the singer into a night together, done as a tribute to the 1963 French film Bay of Angels, which starred Jeanne Moreau.—
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Jennifer then develops a taste for human flesh and begins seducing and killing teenage boys.—
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Some Southwestern Native Americans peoples, like the Taos Pueblo, also believe that dancing, in this case as a spiritual entreaty or invocation to the weather, might bring about cold weather and even snow, so perhaps there’s something to the tradition.—
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Jean-Pierre is an artifact of an age that looks recent on paper but feels prehistoric in practice—the age of pantsuits, the word ’empowerment,’ the musical Hamilton, the cheap therapeutic entreaties to ‘work on yourself’ and ‘lean in’ to various corporate abysses.—
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Crime Stoppers is urging the public not to approach the suspect, who should be considered armed and dangerous.—
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Economic risk from China dispute Japan's Internal Affairs Ministry issued a statement on Saturday urging regional election committees to start preparing in case of an early election.—
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“Coaxing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coaxing. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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