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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unsell
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One area TransUnion is working with clients on now is introducing more friction to today’s instant transactions—extra steps that won’t annoy a legitimate customer so much as to scare them off, but can deter fraudsters.—
Megan Poinski,
Forbes.com,
30 Mar. 2025 -
Going forward, sticky inflation may deter policymakers from cutting rates to stimulate the economy.—
Josh Fellman,
Quartz,
28 Mar. 2025
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All these incidents may have discouraged some potential Tesla buyers from going ahead with their purchases.—
Chris Isidore,
CNN Money,
2 Apr. 2025
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Senior officials in the Newsom administration reportedly discouraged Democrats in the state’s legislature from introducing bills related to transgenderism weeks before the podcast aired.—
Robert Schmad,
The Washington Examiner,
31 Mar. 2025
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Paris and London say such a force would aim to secure any peace deal by dissuading Russia from attacking Ukraine again.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
28 Mar. 2025
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Apart from the account-creation snafu, nothing in my testing has dissuaded me from this idea.—
PCMAG,
PCMAG,
22 Mar. 2025
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When something starts to inhibit your growth or starts pulling you away from your core strengths, don’t be afraid to seek external help.—
Brett Beveridge,
Forbes.com,
26 Mar. 2025
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And most of the time, there isn’t, but occasionally there will be an opportunity for a lineage to begin exploring that ecology and not be inhibited by something else that’s already in that space.—
Steven Strogatz,
Quanta Magazine,
20 Mar. 2025
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“Unsell.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unsell. Accessed 6 Apr. 2025.
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