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as in to cajole
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as in to bamboozle
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Recent Examples of fast-talk
Refrain from letting a fast-talking sales pitch result in emotional, physical or financial trouble.
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Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 16 Jan. 2025
In those 1930s films, the fast-talking lovers and schemers acknowledged the struggling world around them, if quietly (few films beyond Gold Diggers of 1933 made explicit reference to economic turmoil).
—Eric Kohn, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Jan. 2025
Silva plays CeCe, Caroline’s fast-talking, desperately loyal, scene-stealing best friend and authoritarian second-in-command, who keeps the sorority running smoothly while Caroline plots and schemes.
—Patricia Karounos, refinery29.com, 21 Nov. 2024
Kiana’s fast-talking determination, Destiny’s I-gotta-do-better sheepishness.
—John Branch, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2024
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Who will try to cajole Springsteen one day and bully NBC executives the next while managing the fragile egos of comedians and taking the ultimate measure of whether SNL is funny or not?—
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However for Highland Park this path was started in part back in 2008, when Motion chose ten casks to take to the next level, to nurture and cajole into their fifties.—
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Son bamboozled his marker with a couple of quick stepovers, dropped his shoulder and drilled a left-footed shot into the bottom corner.—
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People were bamboozled by the roly-poly big-eyed cuteness — such clips have drawn in millions of viewers.—
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Nonetheless, Dave coaxes Tom stick around after Anne goes to bed.—
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With some creative thinking – and the help of a rotisserie chicken – the team successfully coaxed Barry into coming out from his bear cave, according to CNN affiliate KCAL.—
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Together, Lamar and Jackson blended Uncle Sam with Uncle Tom, a term originating from Harriet Beecher Stowe’s 1852 novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin that refers to Black Americans who willingly betray their community in favor of bowing to white Americans.—
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The dark hair that betrays no trace of silvering, the eyes that seem almost pupilless, the white skin pulled taut over his bones.—
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The club was convinced this roster was a playoff roster, and that’s looking unlikely.—
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That Vera convinces him to sounds like a standard the-show-must-go-on movie triumph.—
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The bitching and leaving early just makes the fan base look entitled and lacking in football common sense.—
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Who triumphs over the greatest challenge of his political career and then can’t stop bitching about the cabinet member who just failed to unseat him?—
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McCafferty wasn’t persuaded by the state’s arguments, which concerned player safety and integrity of the sport.—
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To accomplish that, the farmers had to persuade their clients to embrace a new aesthetic: less polished and more primal, twining and frondy, founded on blossoms that might be too lush and soft to endure weeks of refrigerated storage but could be guaranteed to look and smell like nothing else.—
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Lohse even managed to fool historian Jonathan Petropoulos, who is at the center of the documentary, and spent years investigating Lohse, only to be tricked by him.—
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Was their advocacy for new energy sources just a ploy to fool their constituents and get reelected?—
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“Fast-talk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fast-talk. Accessed 27 Feb. 2025.
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