persuasion
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Persuasion, he rightly believed, isn’t an ornament but the heart of republican leadership.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026
Persuasion fatigue may make it harder to successfully navigate challenging conversations.
From Scientific American • Nov. 14, 2022
Two of his companies, Direct Persuasion, a digital agency, and Opn Sesame, a texting firm, have been paid by the Senate committee more than $4.6 million combined.
From New York Times • Sep. 3, 2022
And in "Persuasion," Anne Elliot is a consummate musician but does not envy the more showy accomplishments of the Musgrove sisters who play the harp, while she is still on the old-fashioned pianoforte.
From Salon • Jul. 18, 2022
Persuasion and entreaty not succeeding, I suspect—but it is only suspicion—that they have had recourse to parental authority, and asked old Henderson to interfere.
From The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II) by Lever, Charles James
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