goad
noun
a stick with a pointed or electrically charged end, for driving cattle, oxen, etc.; prod.
has goaded
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present perfectof goad (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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“Billy knows stuff I don’t know, and I play with people with new information,” said Béla Fleck, the banjoist who has goaded his instrument into novel terrain for a quarter-century.
From New York Times ● Sep. 27, 2021
Recently, however, the Chinese room experiment has goaded me into dwelling on the limits of human cognition.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 9, 2021
He has goaded Alec Baldwin, the “Saturday Night Live” impressionist in chief, into a battle of Trumps.
From New York Times ● Feb. 22, 2017
The ECB's purblind refusal to reveal anything about the trip, as if it involved some top-secret military manoeuvres rather than just some abseiling and hiking, has goaded the media into a suspicious reaction.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 19, 2010
Unfortunately for this secret, Mrs Allonby, one of Lady Hunstanton's guests, has goaded Lord Illingworth into promising to kiss Miss Hester Worsley.
From Oscar Wilde by Leonard Cresswell Ingleby
