persuade

The administration had hoped to persuade states to check their voters’ citizenship status using a system called the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements, or SAVE, but many didn’t.

From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026

She also tried to persuade Schmidt to back a venture fund she would run with him to invest in Anthropic and other AI companies, although that didn’t move forward.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

The government is also considering measures to persuade the owners of an estimated four million unlicensed guns to hand them in.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

I’m also trying to persuade another brother to contribute.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026

Her mother had begun trying to persuade her father to move south, but business was still decent.

From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh

If none of this persuades you of the intrinsic greatness of this country, my fellow Americans, then at least use this historic moment to take a holiday from the bad stuff.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 1, 2026

This is exactly the kind of hype that drives bubbles and persuades ordinary members of the public to take on more risk than they should.

From MarketWatch ● May 27, 2026

Kolar explained that, besides actual innocence, “disproportionality is the second most powerful” argument that persuades clemency boards and governors.

From Slate ● Mar. 6, 2026

I would need to see something that would persuades me that, yes, that's OK now, that will be OK.

From BBC ● Feb. 26, 2026

When you paint with that ink it may physically be black but it suggests to your eye and persuades your seeing that it is all the colors in the world.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

It was Aimee who persuaded him to invest in somewhere more rural before they even married.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026

It looked as though the vendor had raided a secret convention of 1990s elementary-school teachers and persuaded them to turn in their uniforms.

From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026

He persuaded many Irish stars, including Sinead O'Connor and members of U2, to join him in busking for cash in central Dublin.

From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026

He said repeatedly that the Justice Department had abandoned the fund, but Cornyn said he wasn’t persuaded.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026

She persuaded Whipple that she would return to Mount Vernon—but only on the condition that she would be granted her freedom.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis

The power company’s core revenue does not depend on persuading residential regulators to approve higher bills every two years.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026

That is persuading more Chinese companies to use it for AI applications such as the AI assistants.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

The biggest challenge has been persuading fishermen to stop catching one of their most valuable species.

From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026

Dave eventually became their de facto financial adviser, even persuading his mom to open her first brokerage account.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026

Suppose you could go back into the past and change it—by persuading Queen Isabella not to support Christopher Columbus, for example.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan