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Surely, Paramount could have cajoled Mr. Russell to come back and offer a filmmaker’s interview or optional commentary track?

From Washington Times • Mar. 3, 2022

They have cajoled him, they have flattered him, they have leaned on him.

From Washington Post • Nov. 2, 2021

Google won’t build the iMessage clone that Android fans have clamored for, but it seems to have cajoled the carriers into doing it for them.

From The Verge • Apr. 19, 2018

In the war and peace class, for instance, Martinez envisages students would reflect on how different governments have cajoled their citizens into supporting war.

From The Guardian • Dec. 13, 2016

You might have cajoled, and fawned, and played your traitor's part, a little longer, and grown richer.

From Dombey and Son by Dickens, Charles