talked out
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Made on a shoestring budget and expanded from a student film, director John Carpenter‘s feature debut imagines space travel as something closer to a dead-end job. The crew drifts through a long, low-priority mission, killing time, playing pranks and arguing — including with one of the ship’s self-aware bombs, which has to be talked out of detonating after it starts questioning its own existence. “
From Los Angeles Times
“Well, she wasn’t the sort to be talked out of things.”
From Literature
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Filibustering means deliberately wasting time during a debate, for example by making overly long speeches or raising unnecessary procedural points, so a bill is "talked out" and cannot make progress within the time allowed.
From BBC
He called for the government to take control of the draft legislation, warning there was a risk it could be "talked out" and run out of time to become law.
From BBC
"I think attempting to deal with these 900 amendments in this way is going to end up with the bill being talked out."
From BBC
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