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Then, at his busiest, with a wife and three children impatiently waiting at home, he wheedled Mel Brooks for a cameo in “Young Frankenstein.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 28, 2025

Ask any nerd who wheedled her parents for a little more cash to buy books: What you get from Scholastic is what your parents are willing to buy you.

From Salon • Oct. 23, 2023

At 16, he wheedled his way onto the staff of a local newspaper.

From Washington Post • Sep. 21, 2018

As someone who wheedled his grandmother into taking him to see Hitchcock’s “Frenzy” at age 13, I can both relate, and think I have him beat in the awkwardness department.

From New York Times • Aug. 24, 2018

“Please, Jess? Don’t you love me?” she wheedled.

From "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street" by Karina Yan Glaser