coaxing

The network axed footage of Jones and barbers coaxing Trump back on track, cutting straight to his eventual half-answer.

Trump's instinct in these situations is to lie his head off, coaxing his followers to further alienate themselves from facts and put their trust solely in him.

It is too soon to tell if the two-part strategy - bolstering democratic institutions and coaxing business leaders to invest in the region - is working, but Harris has taken a lot of blame for upward trends in migration.

Washington came into the job with a clear checklist of expectations, which included developing a strong work ethic among players, coaxing consistency out of them and teaching them to sustain effort.

Roughly half of Americans subscribe to to some sort of conspiracy theory, and their fellow humans haven’t had much success coaxing them out of their rabbit holes.