dissuade

So far that hasn’t happened, but experts argue the lack of accompanied public messaging could still dissuade some people from keeping up-to-date on their vaccinations.

From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2026

It reenacts the Prophet Abraham's stoning of the devil at three places where Satan is said to have tried to dissuade him from obeying God's command to sacrifice his son Ishmael.

From Barron's ● May 27, 2026

If the person on the other end tries to dissuade you from talking to anyone else, or tries to tell you there’s no time, it’s a scam.

From MarketWatch ● May 22, 2026

Skelton said the decision to release Calocane to the crisis team and return him to his accommodation was not a "gamble" or influenced by Calocane trying to "dissuade" him from sectioning him.

From BBC ● May 7, 2026

If Pecola had announced her intention to live the life they did, they would not have tried to dissuade her or voiced any alarm.

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison

The program encourages fighters to lay down their arms and dissuades potential recruits.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 3, 2024

Mark Llewellyn Slade, the firm's founder, says that's because he dissuades people who don't stand much chance - and also because they've put in more than 1,500 applications and "learned what works and doesn't work".

From BBC ● Dec. 20, 2023

A lack of enough childcare spots dissuades many working women from becoming mothers, he added.

From Reuters ● Jul. 5, 2023

That’s because low vitamin D levels are common in people with any health condition that dissuades them from spending time outdoors—the sun is an important source of vitamin D—or from eating a vitamin-rich diet.

From Scientific American ● Mar. 13, 2023

For there are two main obstacles to the knowledge of things, modesty that casts a mist before the understanding, and fear that, having fancied a danger, dissuades us from the attempt.

From The Praise of Folly by John Wilson

He may have been dissuaded from imposing a toll, but this is the way he thinks, and this is how he defines U.S. interests.

From Slate ● Jul. 15, 2026

I had heard rumblings about the Korean Festival Foundation’s watch party, but once I found out it would take place at Seoul International Park, I was almost dissuaded entirely.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026

"Second, and most important, the harassment by the British press has dissuaded them from ever cooperating with UK authorities or speaking with the British press."

From BBC ● May 28, 2026

In recent years, companies have been dissuaded by the costs and complexity of being a public company subject to the SEC’s rules, Atkins said, including the requirement that companies report their earnings quarterly.

From Barron's ● Apr. 21, 2026

The only time she dissuaded him was when he was about to destroy the daguerreotype of Remedios that was kept in the parlor lighted by an eternal lamp.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Hochman said last week that he wanted to thread the needle between punishing the illegal recording and not dissuading whistleblowers from coming forward.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

Once a key storage of wealth, home prices across the country have stagnated, dissuading would-be buyers from investing.

From Barron's ● Apr. 14, 2026

We understand that calling the principal himself an idiot wouldn’t be the most effective means of dissuading him from destructive ideas.

From Slate ● Jan. 17, 2026

“When experience starts dissuading you from heading back out,” he writes, “it’s because you’ve grown old.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025

Had I succeeded in dissuading Hamlet from revenge?

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein