as in to coax
to get (someone) to do something by gentle urging, special attention, or flattery
cajoled her into doing his laundry for him
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Recent Examples of cajole
Editors’ Picks The Trump administration has been trying to cajole other countries into reaching quick trade deals with the United States.
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Ana Swanson, New York Times, 8 May 2025
Saturday’s vote capped off a tumultuous week of revisions and cajoling over Trump’s agenda, a hodge-podge of tax, border, and defense priorities.
—David Sivak, The Washington Examiner, 29 June 2025
Allies have been corralled, cajoled and pressured to hike their defense expenditure from 2% to 5% of each member nation's gross domestic product by 2035, even as some have struggled to meet the lower target.
—Holly Ellyatt,steve Sedgwick, CNBC, 25 June 2025
Yet French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot said during a recent roundtable with journalists and scholars, hosted by the Atlantic Council think tank, that Paris and Washington might still join forces to cajole Moscow into joining a ceasefire summit.
—Kevin Holden Platt, Forbes.com, 9 June 2025
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Ana Swanson, New York Times, 8 May 2025
Saturday’s vote capped off a tumultuous week of revisions and cajoling over Trump’s agenda, a hodge-podge of tax, border, and defense priorities.
—David Sivak, The Washington Examiner, 29 June 2025
Allies have been corralled, cajoled and pressured to hike their defense expenditure from 2% to 5% of each member nation's gross domestic product by 2035, even as some have struggled to meet the lower target.
—Holly Ellyatt,steve Sedgwick, CNBC, 25 June 2025
Yet French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot said during a recent roundtable with journalists and scholars, hosted by the Atlantic Council think tank, that Paris and Washington might still join forces to cajole Moscow into joining a ceasefire summit.
—Kevin Holden Platt, Forbes.com, 9 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cajole
coax
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There was something meditative about the way the water bubbled and burst, coaxing that tough meat to tenderness.—
Cleyvis Natera,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
21 July 2025
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The crowd burst into laughter, but even wizardry couldn't coax it in.—
Devlina Sarkar,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 July 2025
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“Cajole.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cajole. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.
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