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Reporters at Trudeau’s Saturday press conference, including from the New York Times, thought Trudeau went out of his way to be emollient about Trump, content he had cajoled Trump into signing the joint communique.

From The Guardian • Jun. 11, 2018

It seemed that she and her co-authors had cajoled the data in the usual ways, by excluding certain information when it seemed useful or convenient—a process known as p-hacking.

From Slate • Oct. 19, 2017

Asked if he had cajoled the accommodating Scully to record anything else, he admitted that he had: Scully read off the label of an aspirin bottle.

From New York Times • Sep. 28, 2016

This was the third summer Kaia had cajoled friends from across Norway to Lofoten -- akin, perhaps, to persuading your East Coast college friends to visit you in small-town Montana.

From New York Times • Jul. 10, 2012

Worse, he had cajoled Martin Kamen and another Rad Lab scientist, A1 Marshak, into attending.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik