dissuading

Example Sentences

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Even so, Denver’s sluggish condo market is dissuading some owners from selling, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 22, 2026

The ever-shifting landscape of golden visas isn’t dissuading people from securing one, however.

From Barron's • Dec. 23, 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

As a result, it crowds out potential search competitors from the market altogether, while dissuading others from even getting into the search game.

From Slate • Aug. 6, 2024

Had I succeeded in dissuading Hamlet from revenge?

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein