adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a convincing win especially BrE (= a win by a large amount )
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Scotland cruised to a convincing win over Ireland.
a convincing/credible explanation (= one that you can believe is true )
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The author fails to provide a convincing explanation for the main character’s motives.
a plausible/convincing story
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She tried to think up a convincing story to tell her parents.
convincing (= seeming like a real person )
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The characters were totally convincing.
convincing/compelling (= making you feel sure that something is true )
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The data provides compelling evidence that the climate is changing.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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entirely
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Eliot's argument, never entirely convincing in its own age, had by the 1940s ceased to convince altogether.
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This explanation is not entirely convincing , however, since it overlooks the important industry and workplace negotiations which also take place.
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Eccleshall's argument is very neat, but it is not entirely convincing .
less
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The contributors' arguments became a little less convincing when they came to explain why mantras were used.
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A long, involved excuse always sounds less convincing .
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Three weeks into the campaign the conventional wisdom is looking less convincing .
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You will find that your writing becomes thinner, poorer, less convincing if you take this easy way out.
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In view of such evidence the peace process seems much less convincing than its proponents have suggested.
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When the theoretical assumptions themselves are examined the case is even less convincing .
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The more Mr Roberts strains to show his charming side, the less convincing he seems.
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Rueschemeyer's other main distinction between the law and medicine is less convincing .
more
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The third argument for Labour's cautiousness is only slightly more convincing .
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But it's a good deal more convincing than Damage's empty posing.
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Secondly, production convenience is probably a more convincing reason.
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The arguments that are now available to justify the use of particular methods are much more convincing than they used to be.
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The status consciousness argument really needs more convincing evidence than this experiment before we can take it as proven.
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I hope it's more convincing than Alec Gilroy's departure from the Rovers Return last week.
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There are two reasons why the latter is far more convincing .
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But it was Pearce's assessment which carried a more convincing argument in favour of Ron Atkinson's team.
most
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As it happens, the most convincing way of pretending to clean a window is to actually do so.
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The most convincing recent estimate records a fall in that proportion from 77 percent in 1905 to 61 percent in 1916.
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You are the best and most convincing appointment for London.
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Although challenged, this remains the most convincing explanation.
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These pathological findings are in agreement with clinical studies, the most convincing evidence coming from the prospective community study in Framingham.
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The most convincing of the latter have been sentence completion methods like cloze procedure.
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This is one of the most convincing of all proofs of increasingly rigid discipline on the battlefield.
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Mary McMenamin as Maria, the maid was most convincing .
so
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All the Star Wars hardware, so convincing on-screen, would look like toys by comparison.
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Put like that it didn't sound quite so convincing .
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How were clinical trials, so convincing for antituberculous drugs, to be brought into the sensitive area of subjective experience?
very
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Unless they were very good actors, they sounded very convincing to me when they said they were innocent.
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The hon. Gentleman is not a very convincing advocate of the policies of youth.
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But age-regression does look very convincing to the observer.
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Not that there weren't offers for Mario's services, but they weren't very convincing .
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This patronising obfuscation was never very convincing .
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Professional models do not always look very convincing in a factory or a highly technical laboratory.
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Rhys Williams was very convincing and his books did much to whet my appetite to visit the vast Soviet empire.
■ NOUN
argument
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Furthermore, as we have seen in the discussion of Marxist accounts, monocausal explanations do not provide particularly convincing arguments .
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But it was Pearce's assessment which carried a more convincing argument in favour of Ron Atkinson's team.
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This book will not provide the convincing argument for change.
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The problem is to find a convincing argument for local ethical scepticism which has no expansionist tendencies.
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The conventions about what counts as a convincing argument vary with time and place.
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This is potentially the most convincing argument .
case
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It is also important to be able to make out a continuing and convincing case to young people.
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But Prestel does seem to have made a convincing case for its role in educational computing.
evidence
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The status consciousness argument really needs more convincing evidence than this experiment before we can take it as proven.
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He will demand convincing evidence before he adopts a new theory.
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Taking these cases at face value, does the apparent ability to make and use maps provide convincing evidence of active intelligence?
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There is no convincing evidence that advertising influences total consumption or has an impact on levels of alcohol abuse.
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These pathological findings are in agreement with clinical studies, the most convincing evidence coming from the prospective community study in Framingham.
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That, however, is not possible, for too much convincing evidence opposes the suggestion that there was any such category.
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In fact, the most convincing evidence is from Barton Farm, where coins provide a terminus post quem of c.293.
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As yet we have no convincing evidence that this is the case.
explanation
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The first point to note is that no-one has a convincing explanation for the existence of W-cells.
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Although challenged, this remains the most convincing explanation .
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There is a convincing explanation for this pattern.
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What need to import further obscure perplexities into an already complex situation - particularly when simpler and convincing explanations lay to hand?
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There is a more convincing explanation , however.
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No convincing explanation was initially produced to explain these features.
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Despite much research we can not even today offer a convincing explanation .
reason
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No convincing reason has been given for treating onshore and offshore workers differently - often by the same company.
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But there are no convincing reasons for believing that this would have a beneficial effect on economic performance.
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Secondly, production convenience is probably a more convincing reason .
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No one has a convincing reason for this.
victory
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Then, leading 12-4, Hall took three points running for a convincing victory .
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Pasok by-election victory Pasok secured a convincing victory in a by-election in the Athens B district on April 5.
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Anything less than a convincing victory by Graham Taylor's team will undermine their chances of qualifying from Group 2.
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If not a thoroughly convincing victory it further establishes Mason in the heavyweight division and his career will now take definite shape.
win
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Let's start preparing for a convincing win against Sheffield Utd.
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After a convincing win in game 1 Kasparov fell prey to overconfidence, losing games 4 and 5.
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The final touch down saw a convincing win over Chicksands.
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Barnton lie only two points behind Mobberley after a convincing win at Knutsford.
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Lets hope for a convincing win .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Archeologists found convincing proof that the Vikings had landed in North America.
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I didn't find any of their arguments very convincing .
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Investigators have not found a convincing motive for the crime.
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Jurors thought the defence's arguments were very convincing .
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No one seemed able to give a convincing answer to my question.
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There is convincing evidence that smoking causes heart disease.
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There is no convincing evidence that the tax cut will produce new jobs.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Eliot's argument, never entirely convincing in its own age, had by the 1940s ceased to convince altogether.
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Lets hope for a convincing win.
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Nor is the other alleged prehistoric routeway, the A432, any more convincing .
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The first reasonably reliable and convincing learning task for Drosophila involved training them using just this sense of smell.
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The hon. Gentleman is not a very convincing advocate of the policies of youth.
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The most convincing recent estimate records a fall in that proportion from 77 percent in 1905 to 61 percent in 1916.