dissuade

At times, all he had to do to dissuade a would-be challenger was shoot them a menacing glance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026

It reenacts the Prophet Abraham's stoning of the devil at three places where Satan is said to have tried to dissuade him from obeying God's command to sacrifice his son Ishmael.

From Barron's ● May 27, 2026

If the person on the other end tries to dissuade you from talking to anyone else, or tries to tell you there’s no time, it’s a scam.

From MarketWatch ● May 22, 2026

They also proposed displaying cigarette-style images at sunbed shops and tanning salons to dissuade people from using them.

From BBC ● May 13, 2026

She had learned that when people were bent on doing something they believed was a good deed, it was usually impossible to dissuade them.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng

In the short term, there's probably little that can be done other than targeting those who are "price gouging" in the hope that it dissuades others.

From BBC ● Mar. 11, 2026

In the series, Joss’ Ken dissuades Poehler’s peppy protagonist Leslie Knopefrom hosting a local festival on sacred burial grounds.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2025

Walz told AP he hopes the Legislature will seek a compromise that includes fair pay for drivers but also dissuades the companies from leaving the market.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 15, 2024

A lack of enough childcare spots dissuades many working women from becoming mothers, he added.

From Reuters ● Jul. 5, 2023

But this was not his manner of reasoning with Hastings, whose fidelity to his master's sons was without suspect: and yet the Devil, who never dissuades by impossibility, taught him to try him.

From Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations by Charles William Eliot

He may have been dissuaded from imposing a toll, but this is the way he thinks, and this is how he defines U.S. interests.

From Slate ● Jul. 15, 2026

I had heard rumblings about the Korean Festival Foundation’s watch party, but once I found out it would take place at Seoul International Park, I was almost dissuaded entirely.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026

This outcome secured the Caribbean for Britain and dissuaded the French and Spanish from a planned invasion of Jamaica.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2026

"It doesn't seem like creators have been dissuaded from pushing misleading AI-generated images and videos about the conflict," he said.

From Barron's ● Mar. 15, 2026

Again she declared that she was going to the saloon, but my mother dissuaded her once more.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright

Hochman said last week that he wanted to thread the needle between punishing the illegal recording and not dissuading whistleblowers from coming forward.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

The debt struggles of Evergrande and industry peers including Country Garden, Vanke and Kaisa have had a severe impact on consumer confidence, dissuading many would-be homebuyers from making purchases.

From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026

“When experience starts dissuading you from heading back out,” he writes, “it’s because you’ve grown old.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025

I'm not the only skeptical of how the shallow manipulations of TikTok are dissuading people from having more meaningful, if more slow-moving, experiences in the real world.

From Salon ● Jan. 19, 2025

Had I succeeded in dissuading Hamlet from revenge?

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein