cajolement

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Noun
  • Taking his captain’s role to heart, Mbappe seemed particularly fired up, making multiple exhortations to the crowd to raise the noise levels during the game and receiving a booking late in the first half for a tangle with Livakovic.
    Tom Williams, The Athletic, 25 Mar. 2025
  • Their current congressional leadership of Sen. Chuck Schumer and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries seems far better suited to inside legislative maneuvering than public exhortations.
    Carl Leubsdorf, The Mercury News, 21 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Make information about an informant’s criminal history and inducements available to defense counsel.
    Michelle Mbekeani, Forbes.com, 3 Apr. 2025
  • The filing also details various financial agreements, including a public offering and warrant inducement agreements.
    Quartz Bot, Quartz, 14 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • This included entreaties to allow more food, water and medicine into a starving Gaza Strip and minimizing civilian casualties.
    Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2024
  • The society has not taken any disciplinary action in response to these entreaties.
    Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • These improvements are likely to boost conversion rates, increase average order values, and improve advertising efficiency both on Amazon’s platform and beyond.
    Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Big chances have almost doubled (1.5 per match to 3), as has Everton’s big-chance conversion rate (21 per cent to 41 per cent).
    Patrick Boyland, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Impressed by the senator’s blandishments, the egoistic journalist argues military strategy and then faces a moment of conscience.
    Armond White, National Review, 17 May 2023
  • People want to hear blandishments about engagement and infrastructure.
    Rory Smith, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2023
Noun
  • The 60th anniversary of President Lyndon Johnson’s famous March 15, 1965, voting rights speech is an important reminder of the power of moral suasion when applied in support of basic democratic principles.
    Michael Peregrine, Chicago Tribune, 14 Mar. 2025
  • To that end, an objection by an athlete who is a class member and who stands to lose out from the settlement’s approval will likely have suasion.
    Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 7 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The filmmakers’ gaze sometimes stops to watch a specific event, like a dance or a discreet seduction.
    Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 27 Mar. 2025
  • Pérez’s Mimì doesn’t seem to worry about seduction either way; in this production, Rodolfo is the calm from the storm of her life.
    Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 16 Mar. 2025
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“Cajolement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cajolement. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.

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