persuasive
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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
Jennifer Burns tells in her biography of Friedman how the members of the Cowles Commission decamped for Yale rather than stay in Chicago and face his persuasive arguments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
A reader is hard-pressed to resist becoming a poetry stan, so persuasive is Garmus’ Batter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
He became persuasive and a little more foreign than he need have been.
From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie
Vocabulary lists containing persuasive
TEKS ELAR Academic Vocabulary List (5th-7th grades)
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The SAT: Words to Capture Tone, List 5
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