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Recent Examples of persuadable
The top deciding issue for Trump voters generally was the economy, but persuadable voters were swayed by Trump’s portrayals of Harris.
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Rafael Bernal, The Hill, 11 Dec. 2024
And those persuadable voters in focus in these final days of the race.
—NBC News, 27 Oct. 2024
Advertisement The other camp counters that persuadable voters didn’t heed Biden’s warnings due to the messenger, not the message.
—David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2024
The point is to reach voters who may not be paying attention or are still persuadable.
—Ted Johnson, Deadline, 11 Oct. 2024
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Rafael Bernal, The Hill, 11 Dec. 2024
And those persuadable voters in focus in these final days of the race.
—NBC News, 27 Oct. 2024
Advertisement The other camp counters that persuadable voters didn’t heed Biden’s warnings due to the messenger, not the message.
—David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2024
The point is to reach voters who may not be paying attention or are still persuadable.
—Ted Johnson, Deadline, 11 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for persuadable
Adjective
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Lil Petey has an honest heart and carries the untainted perspective of a pure, impressionable small child.—
Lynnette Nicholas,
Parents,
29 Jan. 2025
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Apparently, universities are engaged in a conspiracy to drive impressionable young Americans away from the values and beliefs with which they were raised.—
Tracy Hresko Pearl,
Baltimore Sun,
27 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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But Betancourt’s classmates found his take prudish and unsophisticated.—
Jake Nevins,
New York Times,
16 Jan. 2025
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The accelerating expansion of China’s nuclear arsenal suggests that its leaders have recently decided that its historically small and unsophisticated capabilities were insufficient for Beijing’s needs and ambitions.—
Abraham M. Denmark,
Foreign Affairs,
19 Nov. 2021
Adjective
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The Bulls are highly motivated to complete a series of trades this week, which means being malleable with contracts to glean as much draft capital and salary-cap flexibility as possible.—
Julia Poe,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Feb. 2025
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Both adults and children can experience lead poisoning, but kids are especially at risk because their growing bones are softer and more malleable.—
Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi,
Discover Magazine,
24 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Trending Viewed together, these works carry a distinctly childlike sense of play, accompanied by a kind of urgent primacy.—
Keegan Brady,
Rolling Stone,
27 May 2023
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The #nofilter Moussa can be disarmingly childlike and offensively straightforward, and Bouajila plays him like a zombie who’s been injected with too much truth serum.—
Jordan Mintzer,
The Hollywood Reporter,
9 Sep. 2022
Adjective
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Tranquillity, often simple but rarely simpleminded, may be Ruscha’s essential quality as an artist.—
Jackson Arn,
The New Yorker,
2 Oct. 2023
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But in general election terms, impeachment is a boon for the Democrats, which is why McCarthy is desperately trying to slow-walk these simpleminded drives for vengeance.—
Walter Shapiro,
The New Republic,
7 July 2023
Adjective
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But over time, his use of symbols and rhetoric have grown more extreme and more violent — so much so that it’s gotten hard to keep track — and further gotten hard to tell how much of this is irony, how much of it is innocence, and how much of it is a sincere embrace of white supremacist rhetoric.—
Aja Romano,
Vox,
7 Feb. 2025
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Unusually, the side stories are actually a little stronger than Ferrell’s main one, thanks largely to a committed and sincere performance from Woody Harrelson.—
Tim Grierson,
Vulture,
4 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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While there are countless superhero stories flooding the TV landscape, Emma Moran's Extraordinary soars with its down-to-earth, Boys-esque twist, where being a hero isn't all it's cracked up to be and unworldly abilities aren't just devices for destruction.—
Alex Galbraith,
EW.com,
24 Sep. 2024
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Buruma, who excels at setting a rather unworldly man in the public life of his time, describes how, in 1672, a mob in The Hague lynched Johan and Cornelis de Witt, brothers who had led the Netherlands’ liberal regime during what is now remembered as the Dutch Golden Age.—
Adam Kirsch,
The New Yorker,
5 Feb. 2024
Adjective
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The move sparked a some wide-eyed responses from the audience.—
Lisa Respers France,
CNN,
4 Feb. 2025
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When, days later, her son fell sick, Webb claims that Jones reacted with wide-eyed shock and worry.—
Shomik Mukherjee,
The Mercury News,
2 Feb. 2025
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