persuader

Example Sentences

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Weinberg is a world-class persuader, though, and a majority of the trustees and a surprising number of benefactors and city officials fell in love with Hammons’s ghost pier.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 2, 2019

In multiple, ragged television appearances, the would-be suave persuader has proved a constant, volcanic erupter of unproven assertions and emotional outbursts, yelling at interviewers and fellow panelists alike.

From Salon • Oct. 6, 2019

In Bannon, Harnwell saw a gifted persuader — somebody he calls a “pioneer” and a “great genius.”

From Washington Post • Dec. 25, 2018

And consensus expressed as a simple, stark number can be a powerful persuader.

From The Verge • Mar. 2, 2018

He knew that food was a powerful persuader of animals.

From "Wringer" by Jerry Spinelli