persuade

Wealth advisers and investment managers are trying to persuade their clients to embrace an asset class that many have grown to despise.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

It might have been hard to persuade a senior officer or a magistrate to extend the suspects' detention without something more definite.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

The Times: You tried last year to persuade the L.A.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026

If this investment goes well, he then tries to persuade other struggling people that they should invest in Bitcoin, and the cycle begins anew.

From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2026

Of course, the mere existence of a diversity of results made it difficult to persuade everyone that Brahe’s arguments were conclusive.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

Longer-term coverage beyond that point will depend upon whether Medicare persuades insurers to participate—a prospect these companies have already balked at once.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 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

When we meet she persuades me to join her in the water telling me she just stays out after heavy rain, which can trigger spills of raw sewage.

From BBC ● May 15, 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

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

Last spring, advocates persuaded council members to pursue a ballot measure that would double the parks allocation over four years.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

That’s right: Oprah Winfrey persuaded her followers to buy a cylindrical glass container holding paper and air, for $45.

From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026

It was the family's connections and clout that Ira says persuaded her to withdraw her allegations against Bechi.

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026

That improvement persuaded L.A.'s Natural History Museum to provide tiny portions of two teeth belonging to Thomas the T. rex, the most complete of the towering tyrannosaur skeletons displayed in the museum's dinosaur hall.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026

In 1787, he was persuaded to return once more to Philadelphia.

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

His most impressive achievement, however, has been persuading people to pay more for his stock than his holdings of Bitcoin are worth.

From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2026

The U.A.E. put years of diplomatic muscle into persuading U.S. officials to sell it top-of-the-line AI chips, ultimately swaying the Trump administration to give it the same access as European countries.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

Such undecided voters will likely decide the election outcome, and persuading them is the key challenge for both parties as November nears.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026

They managed something most newcomers to Tinseltown never do: persuading some of its biggest companies to invest heavily in them.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

There was no problem persuading her to spend a Saturday afternoon this way, for we told her that she was participating in perhaps the most famous event in biology since Darwin’s book.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson