prod
Example Sentences
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At other moments, he suggested the kingdom was also in Iran’s sights if it didn’t prod Washington away from war, the officials said.
U.S. administrations have prodded global semiconductor companies, like Taiwanese giant TSMC, to build chip factories in the U.S., so that a conflict in Asia wouldn’t cripple U.S. industry.
Already the men were being prodded aboard, clambering up over the high sides.
From Literature
Despite the EU’s prodding, European drivers have been reluctant to adopt electric vehicles on the scale regulators envisioned.
One of Sims’s maternal uncles was a labor economist, and prodded him to enter the field.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
