Example Sentences

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In the same post, Queen Bey included a line that may have dissuaded the CMAs from embracing “Cowboy Carter.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 3, 2024

Political hurdles and recruitment issues have dissuaded some researchers from shifting their focus away from severe disease, but others are pushing ahead.

From Scientific American • Jul. 20, 2022

Jarring visuals of children in detention centers and other enforcement actions have dissuaded some from seeking to come here at all.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 20, 2018

At the same time, the controversy doesn’t appear to have dissuaded viewers.

From Washington Post • Jul. 21, 2015

They should have dissuaded these fools, but apparently he was as much a fool as the rest of them.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo