persuadable

Example Sentences

Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to show current usage. Read More Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
Recent Examples of persuadable The top deciding issue for Trump voters generally was the economy, but persuadable voters were swayed by Trump’s portrayals of Harris. Rafael Bernal, The Hill, 11 Dec. 2024 And those persuadable voters in focus in these final days of the race. NBC News, 27 Oct. 2024 Advertisement The other camp counters that persuadable voters didn’t heed Biden’s warnings due to the messenger, not the message. David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2024 The point is to reach voters who may not be paying attention or are still persuadable. Ted Johnson, Deadline, 11 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for persuadable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for persuadable
Adjective
  • Figures like Bad Bunny help fill the space of role models at an age when boys are highly impressionable, according to Sheldon.
    Rachel Hale, USA TODAY, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Harkonnens gonna Harkonnen: Remember Baron Harrow, Valya’s impressionable nephew?
    Sean T. Collins, New York Times, 23 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Commutations for unsophisticated folk who had been over-sentenced would have been defensible, but impunity for practitioners of political violence is what doomed the Weimar Republic.
    George Liebmann, Baltimore Sun, 23 Feb. 2025
  • But Betancourt’s classmates found his take prudish and unsophisticated.
    Jake Nevins, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Every adult understands that quotidian lives are a complex jumble of truths and lies, and that honesty, secrets and privacy are malleable given the situation, but that’s not something a child learns overnight, which makes Marielle’s predicament especially disorienting.
    Jay D. Weissberg, Deadline, 17 Feb. 2025
  • Time is malleable, reality is only a function of our choices, and people can create their own second chances — ideas that Universal Language borrows from Kiarostami’s cinematic library of compassion, and then makes its own.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 15 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Trending Viewed together, these works carry a distinctly childlike sense of play, accompanied by a kind of urgent primacy.
    Keegan Brady, Rolling Stone, 27 May 2023
  • The #nofilter Moussa can be disarmingly childlike and offensively straightforward, and Bouajila plays him like a zombie who’s been injected with too much truth serum.
    Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Sep. 2022
Adjective
  • Tranquillity, often simple but rarely simpleminded, may be Ruscha’s essential quality as an artist.
    Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2023
  • But in general election terms, impeachment is a boon for the Democrats, which is why McCarthy is desperately trying to slow-walk these simpleminded drives for vengeance.
    Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 7 July 2023
Adjective
  • Tompa’s superb performance outlines the better version of herself that Orsolya would like to be, not least through her sincere, searching expressions of grief, but that integrity is often blurred by glibness and complacency.
    Guy Lodge, Variety, 19 Feb. 2025
  • Trump has defended Musk’s slashing and their social media accounts seem to take sincere glee and stripping feds of their livelihoods.
    Philip Elliott, TIME, 19 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • While there are countless superhero stories flooding the TV landscape, Emma Moran's Extraordinary soars with its down-to-earth, Boys-esque twist, where being a hero isn't all it's cracked up to be and unworldly abilities aren't just devices for destruction.
    Alex Galbraith, EW.com, 24 Sep. 2024
  • Buruma, who excels at setting a rather unworldly man in the public life of his time, describes how, in 1672, a mob in The Hague lynched Johan and Cornelis de Witt, brothers who had led the Netherlands’ liberal regime during what is now remembered as the Dutch Golden Age.
    Adam Kirsch, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
Adjective
  • The gas model is more wide-eyed and has a sleek open grille; the electric has slatted LED headlights and a flat panel front face with slender lower air vents.
    Scotty Reiss, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2025
  • After all, worth a few HUFs, that stuff, said one of us alive and well, his childhood staring wide-eyed straight at me.
    Marianne Boruch, The New York Review of Books, 20 Feb. 2025

Browse Nearby Words

Cite this Entry

“Persuadable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/persuadable. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.

Last Updated: - Updated example sentences
Love words? Need even more definitions?

Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free!