to cause (someone) to agree with a belief or course of action by using arguments or earnest requests
tried to get the mayor to let us stage the concert in the town square, but she refused
to disturb the peace of mind of (someone) especially by repeated disagreeable acts
continuously clearing your throat like that is starting to get to me
The opening night of a legendary 1977 run is captured on a four-LP set mastered by Jeffrey Norman from the original analog tapes.
Chris Willman,
Variety,
2 Oct. 2024
Newer vendor solutions in the market have mastered and provisioned a solution that effectively utilizes a bitemporal data model to support accuracy in capturing and reporting, allowing firms to aggregate and disaggregate data in real time.
Bean and Smith were seen on video wrestling with Nichols and holding his arms, while also hitting him, but the jury was not convinced those actions amounted to civil rights violations.
Adrian Sainz,
TIME,
4 Oct. 2024
The clients were easily convinced.
Morgan Goldberg,
Architectural Digest,
4 Oct. 2024
After convention speech, what's next for Ramaswamy Former employees sue Dublin firm founded by presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy Smart, driven, a little 'arrogant': How Vivek Ramaswamy's Cincinnati roots shaped him
Ramaswamy attended Princeton Junior High and St. Xavier High School.
Haadiza Ogwude,
The Enquirer,
22 Nov. 2024
Langford founded and is the coach for the Avon High School debate team.
An engineer at the company, Charlie Ward, was annoyed with Amazon’s Super Saving Shipping service, which offered customers free shipping if their order was $25 or more.
Brian Solis,
Fortune,
17 Oct. 2024
Someone eating off my plate definitely annoyed me in most situations, but this felt different.
More than 70 years ago, Antioch became the first community in California, joined by cities served by San Francisco’s Public Utilities Commission, to add fluoride to its public water supply, according to a history of the state’s fluoridation by UCSF emeritus professor of oral biology Ernest Newbrun.
Lisa M. Krieger,
The Mercury News,
16 Nov. 2024
Of the other six, one became a federal informant, while five others either pleaded guilty to murder or were convicted at trial.
That formal change in Russia’s nuclear doctrine — which had previously envisioned a nuclear response only in the event of an existential threat to Russia — grabbed headlines and stirred a fresh round of debate in Western capitals.
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