brainwash

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for brainwash
Verb
  • This season showed how quickly fortunes can change in the portal era, and perhaps Queen’s Baltimore pride convinces more homegrown stars to play for the state school.
    Baltimore Sun staff, Baltimore Sun, 28 Mar. 2025
  • In 1832, Jackson was convinced that the president of the Bank of the United States, Nicholas Biddle, was using the bank’s wealth and influence to defeat Jackson in the election.
    Jay Cost, The Washington Examiner, 28 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Part of persuading consumers to spend on sustainable products comes from carefully planned and executed advertising and marketing campaigns.
    Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 26 Mar. 2025
  • But the taxpayer still persuaded the Tax Court.
    Robert W. Wood, Forbes.com, 26 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Alvarado needed two pitches to end the game, inducing a lineout from Marlins infielder Xavier Edwards to preserve an 11-10 win.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 20 Apr. 2025
  • If it's needed, wnt signaling may also be reactivated during regeneration after the loss of major portions of the animal, inducing the blastema to form new tail structures.
    John Timmer, ArsTechnica, 18 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Billionaire Trump backer: Wait 90 days before bringing 'hammer down' on China Billionaire investor Bill Ackman, a Trump supporter now at odds with the president over tariffs, called April 13 for a three-month pause on China.
    John Bacon, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2025
  • The showdown is the most significant legal challenge brought against Meta in the company's roughly 20-year history.
    Jacob Rosen, CBS News, 14 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • The firm has lowered its turnover rate, attracted new workers because of the employee ownership strategy, and anecdotally, engagement among workers is up.
    Ian Thomas, CNBC, 17 Apr. 2025
  • Sagrada Familia attracts so many tourists that the city of Barcelona is now building a specific area just for visitors to snap photos.
    Ashley J. DiMella Fox News, FOXNews.com, 17 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • One reason is that in order to entice people to buy its stock, a company needs to offer potential shareholders something in return.
    Jenny Van Leeuwen Harrington, CNBC, 8 Apr. 2025
  • Those touches are some of the reasons that entice fans to buy from brands.
    John W. Dean, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Not so long time ago, in a galaxy not so far away, Alfonso Cuarón was unintentionally influencing the future of the Star Wars franchise.
    Glenn Garner, Deadline, 10 Apr. 2025
  • Yet the case stands to influence legal challenges to the Liberation Day tariffs, too, because the President relied on the same mechanism for both the earlier and more recent tariff announcements, declaring a national emergency under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, of 1977.
    Cristian Farias, New Yorker, 10 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • The quick-service restaurant sells birria burritos, street tacos, enchiladas, chimichangas and more.
    Jenna Thompson, Kansas City Star, 17 Apr. 2025
  • To offset the tariff costs, Williams, who runs his business alone, raised the price of his game slightly on Amazon – his primary sales platform – and has already noticed the games sold at a slower pace.
    Dian Zhang, USA Today, 17 Apr. 2025
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“Brainwash.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brainwash. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.

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