goad
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Mr. Warsh avoided hints during his post-meeting press conference about the future path of interest rates, despite reporters’ best efforts to goad him.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026
The economy lacks other spurs to goad it into faster growth.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 9, 2026
Tommy Lasorda had to goad Hershiser into becoming a bulldog.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2025
They try to goad The Edge into dancing for the BBC's TV crew.
From BBC ● May 22, 2025
She liked to goad me into chasing her.
From "Milkweed" by Jerry Spinelli
Anything that goads and irritates the opposition is fair game.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2024
Preston goads while the two do so in a dimly lit park.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2024
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
In another episode, Che Guevara goads him into indulging power's vilest impulses.
From Salon ● Mar. 18, 2022
This only goads them into talking further, in lowered voices, their heads leaning in toward each other.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
Mr. Warsh resolutely refuses to be goaded into making news at post-FOMC press conferences.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
For example: When music legend Stevie Wonder phoned to congratulate Starr on a Grammy nomination, she goaded him into a playful argument about zodiac signs.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
A brush fire, goaded by a wind storm, has swallowed up much of Palisades Park, an affluent community in northwest Los Angeles, and forced the evacuation of around 30,000 residents from the area.
From Salon ● Jan. 8, 2025
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
The life he saw was short and his sense of it goaded him.
From "Native Son" by Richard Wright
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
Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who has been goading Albany to soak the rich, responded to the proposals: “I’m grateful.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 11, 2026
Artists got an idea for a Museum of Contemporary Art off the ground in 1979, goading the wealthy and influential powers that be into action.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 1, 2025
It was as if they were goading Scotland now.
From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2025
At first I think he’s just goading me—but then I realize it’s a serious question.
From "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon
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