coax

It was part of an unsuccessful attempt to coax Caracas into holding free and fair elections.

Jonathan Blake, a 65-year-old retired director of an IT consulting firm from the Albany, N.Y., area, said KFC would coax him back if it added new products, like additional spicy options.

Now it’s graduation day, when native plants coaxed from seedling trays to 1-gallon pots stand ready for planting on the crossing itself this month.

Poitras takes viewers inside Hersh’s process: the notebooks crammed with barely decipherable shorthand, the Rolodexes packed with names and numbers, the long calls coaxing sources to talk.

There are times you have to coax a body into trusting you so that you can treat it.