adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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Insurers have one of Washington's best-organised lobbies, as persuasive as it is litigious.
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So powerful in fact that the medium of television itself can be as persuasive as the message it sends.
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But their other argument is possibly more persuasive: it's that farm saving is not an easy option.
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The worst is often passionately intrusive, while the best is readily eclipsed by noisier and more persuasive methods of dissemination.
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On the contrary, it is becoming politically more savvy and more persuasive all the time.
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But neither should it be formally abandoned until a more persuasive case could be made for doing so.
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The fearful electorate found Reagan's outrage and can-do optimism more persuasive than the dour Brown's equivocation.
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In one case, the claim was no more persuasive than my claim about my Norman ancestors.
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Little more persuasive is the argument that under another tsar the regime could have withstood revolutionary pressure indefinitely.
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Even more persuasive are small angle neutron scattering studies.
most
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The most persuasive piece of evidence here is the language used by Papinian in discussing the rescript.
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Still, Freedman's tour de force of a final chapter is his most persuasive .
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Sisman is at his most persuasive when he examines a question that has long troubled scholars.
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This double appeal is turning woman-centred methods into the most persuasive and influential aspect of woman-centred psychology.
so
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He was so persuasive , and the salary was twice what I had been getting.
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He's a very persuasive man.
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But Stan is a very persuasive fellow.
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I got nowhere, of course, because in an argument Trevor can be very persuasive .
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He was, in any case, very persuasive .
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She didn't doubt he could be very persuasive - given time.
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Of course, the propounding may be very persuasive and the teacher needs to be wary.
■ NOUN
argument
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But Haig had persuasive arguments to support his inflexible resolve.
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He took me to such a vastly expensive restaurant and gave such a persuasive argument that I was fairly undone.
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We find that a persuasive argument , should we need any further persuasion beyond the plain wording of the Act.
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A persuasive argument that democracy can and should be based on active and extensive participation by the citizenry.
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The preservationists, pinning their faith to moral superiority and persuasive argument , were beaten back every time.
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There is a persuasive argument that it was not.
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This could be a persuasive argument against agency.
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He concluded that there were several persuasive arguments in favour of subjecting demolition to control.
case
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But neither should it be formally abandoned until a more persuasive case could be made for doing so.
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But I understand there is also a persuasive case for the wave view.
evidence
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The growing burden of paperwork is persuasive evidence of bureaucratic indifference to the economic consequences of red. tape.
power
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I began to feel the charge of distance, its persuasive power .
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It stayed open only because Roy rallied both his persuasive powers and the clout of the Disney name to save it.
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Consider how easy it is to be misled by the persuasive power of apparent proof.
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The persuasive power of these latter voices is astonishing.
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The persuasive power of paternalism supplies the motive for this step to be taken.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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persuasive arguments.
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Barratt's argument was persuasive , but the managers still turned down his proposal.
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Diane can be very persuasive .
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He is a very persuasive speaker.
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He made a persuasive case for making the changes.
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Like most politicians, she can be very persuasive when she wants to be.
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We found no persuasive evidence of illegal activity.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A persuasive argument that democracy can and should be based on active and extensive participation by the citizenry.
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Abandon wait for taxi, hoist bags over shoulder and trudge to site where minivans transport officials and persuasive hangers-on to tournament.
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But investigators found the supporting accounts by Kennedy's friends and colleagues to be specific and persuasive , Pentagon officials said.
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Consider how easy it is to be misled by the persuasive power of apparent proof.
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In fact, the sound is so wonderfully persuasive that it supersedes the logic of the lyrics.
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So persuasive she could consider diverting into management consultancy.
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Their advertising was persuasive and their prices attractive, on the surface, so I fell for it like so many others.