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Recent Examples of persuadable
The hunt for blocs of persuadable voters who get their news from algorithmic digital feeds has propelled presidential candidates to the studios of podcasters and social-media influencers, largely bypassing traditional media and journalistic scrutiny.
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Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Nov. 2024
The top deciding issue for Trump voters generally was the economy, but persuadable voters were swayed by Trump’s portrayals of Harris.
—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
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Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Nov. 2024
The top deciding issue for Trump voters generally was the economy, but persuadable voters were swayed by Trump’s portrayals of Harris.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for persuadable
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Indeed, the right-wingers expressing their opposition to the Tates on Thursday tended to argue that the brothers impart the wrong values to their impressionable audience.—
Miles Klee,
Rolling Stone,
27 Feb. 2025
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Judge Neil Chawla said Westwood had used his status and credits on shows, including BBC series Doctors, to prey on impressionable teenagers.—
Jake Kanter,
Deadline,
25 Feb. 2025
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Today’s political speeches and television dramas don’t denigrate Ottoman leaders as unsophisticated conquerors but adulate them as pioneers of a new civilizational order—fair in governance and more compassionate toward their subjects than their Western contemporaries.—
Asli Aydintasbas,
Foreign Affairs,
19 May 2021
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Commutations for unsophisticated folk who had been over-sentenced would have been defensible, but impunity for practitioners of political violence is what doomed the Weimar Republic.—
George Liebmann,
Baltimore Sun,
23 Feb. 2025
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Archaeological evidence shows that by 8000 B.C., Neolithic humans began incorporating this malleable metal into their daily lives, later crafting tools that replaced their stone predecessors.—
Ed Macha,
Forbes,
5 Mar. 2025
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Even so, Trump is malleable and can change his tune on a dime.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
28 Feb. 2025
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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
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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
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While the show ran long this year, IndieWire’s review greatly enjoyed this year’s sincere and silly show as hosted by O’Brien in his first (and hopefully not final) stint.—
Brian Welk,
IndieWire,
4 Mar. 2025
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So take it one step at a time, and make sure your invitation is simple, clear - and sincere!—
Chris Westfall,
Forbes,
3 Mar. 2025
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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
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That resulted in a good, wide-eyed view of the night sky that was ideal for looking for details within constellations and scanning the Milky Way.—
Rich Owen,
Space.com,
7 Mar. 2025
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Thankfully, most of them are looking a little wide-eyed as well.—
Alex Ritman,
Variety,
7 Mar. 2025
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“Persuadable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/persuadable. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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