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

Both of the cabos are coaxing visitors back with discounts after Hurricane Odile wreaked havoc last fall.

From New York Times • Jan. 9, 2015

Then those others are coaxing the flowers to spring up and bud.

From Dreamland by Lippmann, Julie Mathilde