coax

These new pioneers coax the landscape into fertile framing, helping to feed hungry populations.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026

Others who tried to coax transporation funding through the Legislature cited varied reasons for the state’s apparent reluctance to make Olympics funding a higher priority, including:

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

To make way for the next generation without losing key clients, major firms like Latham & Watkins and Debevoise are hiring specialized consultants to coax veterans into second careers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

The day was in the low 70s, and a breeze was coming through our kitchen window; I decided I would not mind standing at the stove long enough to coax the squash toward sweet collapse.

From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026

“So maybe we could coax him back to Long Island Sound,” Grover said.

From "The Titan's Curse" by Rick Riordan

Allegra Goodman’s family saga coaxes, in Sam Sacks’s words, “excellent, bone-dry humor” out of the skirmishes and long-running battles among members of a loving, fractious clan.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026

Camila coaxes Wes to dance, and he is not as bad dancer as he claims to be.

From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2024

Aparicio coaxes cultural histories from his rubber casts of trees and meandering flows of poured amber.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2024

It’s not until Pointer coaxes her to take off her artificial leg, leaving her dependent on him, that her internal alarm bells start to go off.

From Slate ● Mar. 29, 2024

But Mama’s sweetness enfolds him and coaxes him back.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez

Inside, under flickering lights, a group of reluctant strangers is coaxed into acting out, in a converted gymnasium, a wild tale promising redemption from agonizing tragedy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026

The Loch Ness monster appeared on screen before being magically coaxed on to the stage by Outlander star Sam Heughan.

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026

The drippings, on that first night, don’t go to waste: they’re coaxed into something worthy of the occasion, slicked over potatoes or spooned onto rice, greener and more herb-laced than you might expect.

From Salon ● Apr. 26, 2026

Gen. John Brennan emerged from the plane on Tuesday, he was greeted by an army composed of two rival Libyan factions the American officer had coaxed into holding their first ever joint military exercises.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026

She takes a faded scrap of paper from her pocket, bearing her name, her real name that he coaxed from her years ago and asked her to write in one of his notebooks.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

After some coaxing from family, Ramirez realized he was perfectly equipped to create mobile kitchens from scratch.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026

Great TV imbues its fiction with a soul, coaxing us to view fully crafted characters as beings of flesh and blood, or constructed unscripted scenarios as truth.

From Salon ● Jun. 20, 2026

The woman crouches, coaxing the animal with sweet compliments and a stick of sugarcane she brought with her.

From Slate ● May 27, 2026

Entrepreneurs Karin Walter-Mommert and Walter Gunz later funded a private rescue, fitting the whale with a tracking device and coaxing it onto a water-filled transport ship called Fortuna B.

From BBC ● May 16, 2026

The Retrieval Squad roared military-type affirmatives, coaxing as many metallic noises from their weapons as possible.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer