as in convincing
the act of reasoning or pleading with someone to accept a belief or course of action
gave up smoking only after a prolonged inducement by all the other family members
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Recent Examples of inducement
The new grants could be an extra inducement for these schools to offer new programs in high-demand fields, as well as give schools the financial capacity to expand.
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Preston Cooper, Forbes.com, 30 Apr. 2025
That deal with the Vol Club ended up drawing scrutiny from NCAA investigators, which led to the attorney general of Tennessee suing the NCAA and the association’s rules against NIL being used as a recruiting inducement being dropped.
—The Athletic College Football Staff, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025
Or mostly robotic, at least—the fruit flies the researchers used would occasionally go their own way, despite strong inducements to stay with the program.
—John Timmer, ArsTechnica, 9 Apr. 2025
The various marriages, breakups, affairs, catfights, resurrection storylines, canine dream sequences, and Y2K-panic inducements have been a staple on Australian television, until Amazon took the series global by adding it to its Freevee platform.
—Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 21 Feb. 2025
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Preston Cooper, Forbes.com, 30 Apr. 2025
That deal with the Vol Club ended up drawing scrutiny from NCAA investigators, which led to the attorney general of Tennessee suing the NCAA and the association’s rules against NIL being used as a recruiting inducement being dropped.
—The Athletic College Football Staff, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025
Or mostly robotic, at least—the fruit flies the researchers used would occasionally go their own way, despite strong inducements to stay with the program.
—John Timmer, ArsTechnica, 9 Apr. 2025
The various marriages, breakups, affairs, catfights, resurrection storylines, canine dream sequences, and Y2K-panic inducements have been a staple on Australian television, until Amazon took the series global by adding it to its Freevee platform.
—Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 21 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for inducement
Noun
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Review existing grantor trusts and evaluate them for potential conversion to non-grantor trusts to optimize charitable giving tax benefits.—
Martin Shenkman,
Forbes.com,
14 July 2025
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Taplin: In the 1970s, my dad was working in condo conversions.—
Kate Talerico,
Mercury News,
14 July 2025
Noun
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The other trades persuasion for provocation, and risks shrinking the very coalition needed to survive.—
Sam Raus,
Oc Register,
13 July 2025
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That’s because under polarized conditions, a true swing state is usually the place where both parties make the strongest efforts at persuasion, where the stakes of each election seem highest and the fear of the other party’s rule is sharpest among partisans on either side.—
Ross Douthat,
Mercury News,
11 July 2025
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“Inducement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inducement. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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