to mediate
/ˈmidiˌeɪt/
verbto help end a dispute between people by trying to find something on which everyone agrees
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1. The entire process from the start of menses to the beginning of the next menses is mediated by hormones.
2. Tools mediate the worker's relation to the world.
3. Your encounter with the world is always mediated.
4. Follicle development is mediated by FSH, a pituitary hormone.
5. The electrical part is mediated by electrolytes like sodium, potassium and calcium.
mediation
/ˌmidiˈeɪʃən/
nounthe process or act of helping those involved in a conflict reach an agreement
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1. The two countries started mediation for the first time in 30 years over part of the sea because of their dual interest in energy development.
2. So doing more mediations as a mediator.
3. My chemistry class was my mediation class.
4. Mediation and improvisation also assume a special place in this new pantheon.
5. Have you guys ever taken mediation classes?
mediator
/ˈmidiˌeɪtɝ/
nounan organization or person who tries to help those in a conflict reach an agreement
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1. The mediator is from Pune, India.
2. These mediators are normally responsible for the body’s protective response against infections or injuries.
3. Calcium is the mediator of LTP induction.
4. Mediators are urgently needed.
5. And the mediator is at the end of the table.
moderator
/ˈmɑdɝˌeɪtɝ/
nounsomeone who, as a job, helps opposing sides come to an agreement
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1. Each group has a moderator.
2. Each group has a moderator.
3. Other moderators become depressed.
4. Our moderator is HBS Professor Robert Huckman.
5. Add comment moderators.
to nobble
/nˈɑːbəl/
verbto persuade someone to do what one wants by threatening them or giving them money
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1. Yes, 'to nobble'.
2. Now, 'nobbled' means sabotage.
3. My horse was completely useless, but I'm sure it must have been 'nobbled'.
peacekeeper
/ˈpiˌskipɝ/
nounsomeone who tries to stop others from fighting or quarreling
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1. Her kind, patient demeanor earned her the nickname the Peacekeeper.
2. The first test has been my standby for years, Peacekeeper.
3. Yeah, these are UN peacekeepers.
4. I recently met a male peacekeeper, who had just returned from deployment as a gender adviser in the Central African Republic.
5. Now peacekeepers are controlled by The Capitol and they are basically the military and law enforcement in Panem.
peacemaker
/ˈpisˌmeɪkɝ/
nouna country or person who tries to persuade other countries or people to stop quarreling or fighting
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1. This is Peacemaker?
2. Before him came the peacemakers of Northern Ireland, John Hume and George Mitchell.
3. Before him came the peacemakers of Northern Ireland, John Hume and George Mitchell.
4. "Blessed are the peacemakers."
5. The name Winnie also means peacemaker and gentle friend
to persuade
/pɝˈsweɪd/
verbto make a person do something by giving them a good reason why they should do it
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1. His conservative counselors persuaded him of the dangers of the growth of radical Protestantism in the country.
2. I am persuaded.
3. It persuades no one.
4. That doctrine in the Upjohn case persuaded that court that dissemination was necessary for the widespread goals of the discovery system.
5. Today's word is persuade.
persuasion
/pɝˈsweɪʒən/
nounthe process or act of persuading someone to do or believe something particular
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1. Make a persuasion check.
2. Make a persuasion check.
3. So what is persuasion?
4. So what is persuasion?
5. You might try persuasion.
persuasive
/pɝˈsweɪsɪv/
adjectivecapable of convincing others to do or believe something particular
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1. Statistics are persuasive.
2. She's very persuasive.
3. Is it persuasive?
4. Still, his ideas were very persuasive.
5. Justice Kagan then and now had persuasive powers.
to press
/ˈpɹɛs/
verbto try very hard to persuade someone to do something
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1. Their families, and the press, are kicking up a fuss.
2. Lips press together.
3. Tongue tip presses the back of the bottom front teeth and the middle part of the tongue presses forward along the roof of the mouth.
4. A rolling wheel presses each coaster against an ink plate.
5. Press the button now.
to pressure
/ˈpɹɛʃɝ/
verbto force or persuade someone to do something
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1. The engorged sinuses put pressure on the cranial arteries and veins, as well as muscles in the neck and head.
2. The hand in of itself is still maintaining pressure.
3. Pressure makes diamonds.
4. Pressure makes diamonds.
5. Pressure makes diamonds.
pressure
/ˈpɹɛʃɝ/
nounthe action of forcing, persuading, or intimidating someone into doing something
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1. The engorged sinuses put pressure on the cranial arteries and veins, as well as muscles in the neck and head.
2. The hand in of itself is still maintaining pressure.
3. Pressure makes diamonds.
4. Pressure makes diamonds.
5. Pressure makes diamonds.
to pressurize
/ˈpɹɛʃɝˌaɪz/
verbto force someone to do something
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1. - Pressurize the hose.
2. - Pressurize the hose.
3. Tank is pressurizing.
4. It pressurizes the bottle.
5. The space pen's ink is pressurized with nitrogen.
to prevail on
/pɹɪvˈeɪl ˈɑːn/
verbto persuade and convince a person to do something
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to push
/ˈpʊʃ/
verbto influence someone to do something, particularly something that might be against their will
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1. - Just push a tooth down.
2. - Push the top button.
3. Just push the button.
4. Push that button.
5. - Push this button.
to reason with
/ɹˈiːzən wɪð/
verbto talk to someone to convince them to act or think more rationally
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1. The Jumbotron couldn't reason with fans. -
2. And John Gibbons couldn't reason with the umps.
3. It could have been reasoned with.
4. They make errors of logic in reasoning with uncertainty.
5. Do not try to reason with them.
to seduce
/sɪˈdus/
verbto influence someone to do something by making it seem interesting or pleasant
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1. Meanwhile his halting, gauche attempts to seduce women were met by ridicule and rejection.
2. She seduces her uncle.
3. It seduces its visitor with sweet nectar.
4. Cow seduces Indonesian man.
5. Oh, OK, OK David So, tryna seduce the ladies.
silver tongue
/sˈɪlvɚ tˈʌŋ/
nounthe ability of persuading others to believe something or do something that one wants
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1. His silver tongued mother sent him this scathing reproof . . .
2. You have set my heart aflutter with your silver tongue.
3. There's that silver tongue again.
4. Silver tongue turned the lead?
5. - I think like you're more thoroughly entrapped as one of Grindelwald's followers because you're in the clutch of his silver tongue.
silver-tongued
/sˈɪlvɚtˈʌŋd/
adjectiveskilled at persuading others to believe something or do what one wants
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smooth-talking
/smˈuːðtˈɔːkɪŋ/
adjectivetalking with confidence and politeness in order to persuade someone to do something, in a manner that might be insincere or dishonest
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to soften up
/sˈɔfən ˈʌp/
verbto be very nice to someone so that the chance of them agreeing to do what one wants is increased
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to sway
/ˈsweɪ/
verbto encourage someone to do or believe something
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1. This urban myth actually still holds sway with a lot of physicians.
2. On the right hand side, gravity holds sway.
3. So out of 505 stocks, those 10 stocks sway the index more.
4. Instead, your body sways very slightly.
5. Sway, sway.
to sweeten
/ˈswitən/
verbto attempt to persuade someone to do what one wants by promising them something or giving something to them
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1. -Would this sweeten the pot?
2. Those features only sweeten an already tempting pot for a guy who's always on the road.
3. Nestles sweetened condensed milk.
4. Number four, VitaminWater Zero, naturally sweetened.
5. - That's sweetened?
to talk into
/tˈɔːk ˌɪntʊ/
verbto convince someone to do something they do not want to do
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1. RYAN HOLIDAY: Talk into his hip microphone please.
2. So we talk into this?
3. SPEAKER: Talk into it.
4. - Don't talk into the straw!
5. He would talk into the telephone.
to talk sb out of sth
/tˈɔːk ˌɛsbˈiː ˌaʊɾəv ˌɛstˌiːˈeɪtʃ/
phraseto advise someone against doing something
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1. Now, she could have refused to answer the stranger altogether, or tried to talk him out of it.
2. the tattoo artist has said on several platforms already that he tried to talk him out of it.
3. And I talked him out of it.
4. I tried, furiously, everything I could do to talk him out of it.
5. Wallis was horrified at the idea that Edward would abdicate for her, and tried to talk him out of it.
to tempt
/ˈtɛmpt/
verbto persuade someone to do something that seems interesting to them, even though they know it is not good for them
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1. The darkness also tempts the carnivores out of their hiding places.
2. The darkness also tempts the carnivores out of their hiding places.
3. Political disruptors are tempting voters away from the UK's two big main parties.
4. This guy's name is TEMPT.
5. TEMPT was one of the foremost graffiti artists in the 80s.
to twist one's arm
/twˈɪst sˈʌmwʌnz ˈɑːɹm/
phraseto force or persuade someone to do something they are unwilling to do
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1. If you’re feeling physical pain, it probably means that your body is under stress, damaged, or in danger, and your nervous system is sending a cease and desist signal to stop twisting your arm like that, or to back away from that bonfire, or please seek medical attention, like, RIGHT NOW.
2. I love it, you don't have to twist his arm, Steve.
3. They twist your arm.
4. So a few years after this, through Billie Jean King and everyone at the Women's Sports Foundation-- some of the folks have been around obviously here at the conference-- the wonderful Women's Sports Foundation, which does so much good work, they basically kind of twist your arm and pretty soon you're president of the Women's Sports Foundation.
5. I've read interpretations that it was really Jefferson writing to Madison who twisted his arm and talked him into it.
to urge
/ˈɝdʒ/
verbto try hard to persuade or encourage someone to do something
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1. At an emergency meeting on October 16, 1962, military advisors urged an airstrike on missile sites and invasion of the island.
2. Secondly, the good listener urges clarification.
3. They urge the continuation of the building.
4. So she urges the tolerance, the room for great differences among neighbors.
5. Now back in England, many people urged a lenient response to this.
to wheedle
/wˈiːdəl/
verbto influence someone to do something or to get something from them by being superficially nice to them
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1. Use our voice recognition software to cajole and wheedle the app down when it gives you an unsatisfactory calorie total.
2. Reminds me in the 80s whenever there called wheedling right
3. But a realistic digital avatar could be a useful cover for wheedling key details such as passwords or bank details out of targets.
4. How they wheedle their way into the collective psyche without us even knowing, and how that should happen.
to win around
/wˈɪn ɐɹˈaʊnd/
verbto try to change someone's opinion about something and gain their support or favor
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to win over
/wˈɪn ˈoʊvɚ/
verbto try to change someone's opinion on something and gain their favor or support
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to work on
/wˈɜːk ˈɑːn/
verbto attempt to persuade someone to do or agree to something
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1. He did give them something to Work On, if they choose to.