How to Use persuadable in a Sentence
persuadable
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The breeze was warm, the soil was soft, and the weeds were persuadable.
—Murr Brewster, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 May 2017
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The concern for Trump is that the poll is a harbinger of a full break among persuadable voters toward Biden.
—Mario Parker, Bloomberg.com, 5 Oct. 2020
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But with the Delta variant spreading like wildfire, there may not be time to play the long game even with people who seem persuadable.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Aug. 2021
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The people less likely to vote as well as those who are persuadable voters are more likely to be closer to the center of the aisle.
—Harry Enten, CNN, 9 Oct. 2021
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One way to think about them is a possibly persuadable pool of voters.
—CBS News, 30 July 2020
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The stakes of the election expand while the presidential field, the number of swing states, and the pool of persuadable voters all contract.
—Matthew Continetti, National Review, 25 Mar. 2023
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But the segments of the Republican party that are not in Trump’s thrall may yet be persuadable.
—Time, 14 Aug. 2023
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To win, even in a one-on-one contest, Trump would need to hold only about half of the remaining, persuadable voters.
—David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2023
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What matters are the perceptions of persuadable voters and Democrats who might have stayed home in the face of a bad economy.
—Paul Krugman, The Mercury News, 24 Jan. 2024
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Some of these folks, the Biden people have concluded, are persuadable.
—Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2022
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But his mother, who is also a nurse, seemed persuadable.
—Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2020
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The slice of the state’s electorate that is seen as persuadable is getting smaller, a trend that has shown up in many parts of the country, strategists from both parties said.
—Joshua Jamerson, WSJ, 24 Oct. 2022
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And that outer suburb base for persuadable voters is not new.
—Dante Chinni, NBC News, 18 Sep. 2022
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In other words: Some unvaxxed adults are still persuadable.
—Brian Stelter, CNN, 19 Dec. 2021
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But other polling suggests that the truly persuadable voters are drawn to those who can restore hope.
—Time, 4 Dec. 2019
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Numbers back up the idea that there are many persuadable voters still out there, according to Portman.
—Tyler Olson, Fox News, 1 May 2022
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To do that, the campaign identified groups of users as Black, as voters, as living in swing states, and, finally, as persuadable.
—Sidney Fussell, Wired, 12 Oct. 2020
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The ads aim to reach persuadable voters on digital platforms such as Hulu.
—Yvonne Wingett Sanchez, azcentral, 27 Jan. 2020
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His focus at the Lincoln Project was reaching out to persuadable voters in key portions of battleground states.
—Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2022
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There are some key questions: Will this conviction resonate with persuadable voters in key swing states?
—Domenico Montanaro, NPR, 31 May 2024
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Suburban women are seen as one of the only persuadable voting groups.
—Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 13 June 2023
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Of course, persuadable voters won’t be the only important factor this fall.
—Dante Chinni, NBC News, 18 Sep. 2022
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The idea that elections are decided by the state of the economy rests on an assumption that there is a critical mass of swing voters, persuadable by either side.
—The Economist, 20 June 2019
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A great deal of research shows that what moves persuadable voters isn’t watering down your views, despite this being the common approach of so many politicians.
—Anand Giridharadas, Time, 18 Oct. 2022
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In this case, however, the cliché is true: After a year of nonstop campaigning, the number of persuadable swing voters is almost surely tiny.
—David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 2020
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Some senators, however, pushed back against that idea, arguing that Trump would assume that those who did not sign the document would be persuadable on a vote to oust him.
—oregonlive, 17 Oct. 2019
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There is a very small sliver of people who are genuinely persuadable and tuning into the speech with an open mind to evaluate their feelings about Biden and his agenda.
—Nr Staff, National Review, 7 Feb. 2023
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The virus has demonstrated something definitively to a large number of persuadable voters: that Mr Trump is just not that good at being a president.
—The Economist, 2 July 2020
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Being persuadable is way harder than being persuasive, and the best tool is engaging with smart people who challenge your point of view.
—Tamar Haspel, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2023
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If interest rates come down, then B. If persuadable voters start to pay attention, then C. But what if that’s all nonsense or wishful thinking?
—Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 7 June 2024
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