coaxed

Example Sentences

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"Overall, the Nikkei would be poleaxed, and global equity markets would also weaken."

From Reuters • Jan. 18, 2023

“When I was 5 I saw ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs’ and my mother said it poleaxed me,” Mr. Williams told the Sydney Morning Herald in 1998.

From Washington Post • Aug. 19, 2019

Anyone who found "Downton Abbey" to be occasionally a bit on the naughty side will be poleaxed by this.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 1, 2018

Baltimore then forced the game's first turnover when Bernard Pollard poleaxed New England running back Stevan Ridley, forcing the ball loose.

From BBC • Jan. 21, 2013

They never had to make this fabrication a matter of public record, however: their letter to Bloom accusing him of this deed did the trick—he finally dropped out of the fight as if poleaxed.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols