goad
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The economy lacks other spurs to goad it into faster growth.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 9, 2026
Commercial banks can goad the Fed into buying Treasurys by increasing their demand for reserves.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 18, 2025
Tommy Lasorda had to goad Hershiser into becoming a bulldog.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2025
There’s plenty of footage showing Springer using his power as the show’s host to goad subjects into fights, call their romantic choices sick or depraved, or even crack jokes about their situation.
From Salon ● Jan. 7, 2025
Eloise said, trying to goad her older sister into action.
From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland
One seeks out a key piece of Parkinson's-causing RNA, while the other goads the cell to chop it to pieces for recycling.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 9, 2024
But it's still the dinner rush, and my phone goads me with the familiar chime of incoming offers.
From Salon ● Sep. 10, 2022
If that’s not enough meta-weirdness for you, throughout the movie, Nick regularly converses with a younger, cockier version of himself, “Nicky,” who goads him to recapture his former stardom.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2022
It was a strong-willed Cabinet of goads, gadflies and bureaucrats, and there were interagency squabbles and rivalries that the mayor seemed unable to control.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 24, 2020
This only goads them into talking further, in lowered voices, their heads leaning in toward each other.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
A second complainant told jurors he had kissed Bowen in a café after being "goaded" into it by other boys.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
The fans goaded Kuniskis to rip a burnout, spinning the truck’s wheels in place until rubber turned into smoke.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
His mother was furious and goaded his father to discipline him.
From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026
The beef continued at the Source magazine awards on 3 August 1995, when Knight goaded Combs and Bad Boy Records from the stage.
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2024
And then, goaded on—the goad invisible but real, not to be challenged—he resumed his climb.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
When San Antonio’s big man Victor Wembanyama pointed to his temple after goading a Knick into a cheap foul, the taunt was clear: I’m in your head, buddy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
Rather than respond directly to the company, Muddy Waters took to X, where it posted a meme goading SoFi to “run that game.”
From Barron's ● Mar. 18, 2026
The goading and deliberate reduction in food encourages them to fly and helps them lose weight, he says.
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2025
“What that family suffered is truly, truly horrific and truly unconscionable. The lies that were told, the goading of the family, all of that is absolutely horrendous.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2025
He began by goading his audience of Korean immigrants and their American-raised adult children, asserting that Kim Jong II was worse than Hitler.
From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden
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