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“I need to go to work, son,” he tried to smooth-talk me.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
Rubio’s smooth talk has both reassured and frustrated U.S. allies unnerved by his boss.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026
Domingo is unsurprisingly fantastic, code-switching between smooth talk and a West Indian accent when necessary; Braun takes Derrek’s humiliation on the chin.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2021
The shrewd seller, after all, succeeds by equivocation, with smooth talk and a knack for duplicity -- predatory purpose masked by easygoing amiability.
From Salon ● Jan. 29, 2019
But he was also fascinated by cartoonist Eddie Campbell’s character Dapper John, an archetypal English “wide boy”—a man who takes unreasonable chances and gets by through resourcefulness and smooth talk.
From Slate ● Oct. 23, 2014
Sensing that Forbes is not a regular guard, Booth manages to smooth talk the unsuspecting Forbes and gives him a piece of paper with some writing on it.
From "Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly
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