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What is another word for trying to persuade?

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Verb
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Present participle for to demand earnestly or pressingly
pushing
pressing
urging
encouraging
influencing
persuading
advising
compelling
imploring
driving
hustling
promoting
begging
bothering
hounding
inciting
spurring
advocating
constraining
expediting
harassing
badgering
pestering
beseeching
inducing
inspanning
prodding
soliciting
hassling
motivating
nagging
recommending
harrying
inspiring
prompting
adjuring
goading
nudging
propelling
entreating
exhorting
impelling
insisting
keying up
speeding up
putting up to
pouring it on
insisting on
pushing for
turning on
appealing to
selling one on
egging on
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Verb
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Present participle for to (attempt to) influence, persuade or pressure someone, typically politically
lobbying
influencing
persuading
petitioning
pressing
pressuring
pushing
urging
soliciting
swaying
appealing
importuning
pressurisingUK
pressurizingUS
appealing to
calling on
inducing
pitching
politicking
procuring
requesting
selling
soft-selling
soft-soaping
sweet-talking
applying pressure
building up
campaigning for
high pressuring
selling one on
swaying opinion
bringing pressure to bear on
exerting influence
pressing your case
pulling strings
putting pressure on
seeking to influence
soliciting votes
trying to influence
making a pitch for
bringing pressure to bear
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trying to put out
trying to reach a compromise
trying to remember
trying to see
trying to solve
trying to sort out
trying too hard
trying to obtain
trying to mend
trying to ingratiate oneself with
trying to influence
trying to improve
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