persuasive
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In the same article, the pianist Stephen Drury, a persuasive advocate for both Cage and Feldman, compared playing the latter’s music to working on the Pyramids.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2026
She described him as being "highly persuasive... a complex character" and "exciting to be with".
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
Several quarters of consistent evidence would be more persuasive than one strong margin number.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 2026
A reader is hard-pressed to resist becoming a poetry stan, so persuasive is Garmus’ Batter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
There is a plausible and quite persuasive answer to the second question, which will then lead us to a plausible but more speculative answer to the first.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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