are coaxing
- present progressive of coax.
Example Sentences
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Two-thirds said this was prompted by the pandemic and, while many businesses are coaxing employees back to the office, the CMI says they should embrace hybrid patterns, citing evidence of an "uptick in productivity".
From BBC ● Feb. 18, 2022
But new insights and breakthroughs in artificial intelligence are coaxing, or forcing, proteins to give up their secrets.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 22, 2021
A number of play-building programs are coaxing the District further out of its chrysalis.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 24, 2015
Low interest rates and longer loan terms — the average car loan is more than 66 months — are coaxing consumers to buy cars sooner than they would have otherwise.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 5, 2015
Have you ever noticed how slowly time goes when you are coaxing a shilling and a sixpence out of somebody's money-box?
From The Little Warrior by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)
