Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unsell
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Moreover, many are deterred from selling due to capital gains tax thresholds that have not kept pace with inflation, especially in high-growth housing markets.—
Ilona Limonta-Volkova,
Forbes.com,
9 Apr. 2025 -
In addition to an extended flowering season and piquant fragrance, catmints attract lots of pollinators and deter deer.—
Rita Pelczar,
Better Homes & Gardens,
9 Apr. 2025
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All these incidents may have discouraged some potential Tesla buyers from going ahead with their purchases.—
Chris Isidore,
CNN Money,
2 Apr. 2025
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Senior officials in the Newsom administration reportedly discouraged Democrats in the state’s legislature from introducing bills related to transgenderism weeks before the podcast aired.—
Robert Schmad,
The Washington Examiner,
31 Mar. 2025
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They were ultimately dissuaded by mortgage owners and housing authorities.—
Ann Rutledge,
Forbes,
17 Mar. 2025
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Correspondence between former Pardon Attorney Liz Oyer and the Justice Department indicates the department planned to dispatch U.S. marshals to deliver a letter seeking to dissuade her from talking at the event about allegations that she was fired for recommending Gibson’s gun rights be restored.—
Rebecca Beitsch,
The Hill,
7 Apr. 2025
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When something starts to inhibit your growth or starts pulling you away from your core strengths, don’t be afraid to seek external help.—
Brett Beveridge,
Forbes.com,
26 Mar. 2025
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And most of the time, there isn’t, but occasionally there will be an opportunity for a lineage to begin exploring that ecology and not be inhibited by something else that’s already in that space.—
Steven Strogatz,
Quanta Magazine,
20 Mar. 2025
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“Unsell.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unsell. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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