Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being persuaded or prevailed upon.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective That may be persuaded.
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- adjective Easily persuaded, convinced or manipulated
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective being susceptible to persuasion
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Examples
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First objective: to speak to so-called undecided swing voters, what we call persuadable voters, voters who may be leaning one way or another, but have not yet completely made up their mind.
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Organizers are especially interested in talking with 10 freshmen House members that a prominent Tea Party-affiliated group has identified as persuadable on the question of continued U.S. involvement in Afghanistan: Justin Amash MI-3.
HUFFPOST HILL - Obama Pulls Back On Social Security Cuts Eliot Nelson 2011
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Organizers are especially interested in talking with 10 freshmen House members that a prominent Tea Party-affiliated group has identified as persuadable on the question of continued U.S. involvement in Afghanistan: Justin Amash MI-3.
HUFFPOST HILL - Obama Pulls Back On Social Security Cuts Eliot Nelson 2011
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Organizers are especially interested in talking with 10 freshmen House members that a prominent Tea Party-affiliated group has identified as persuadable on the question of continued U.S. involvement in Afghanistan:
GOP Lawmakers Planning Meeting To Explore Alternatives In Afghan War Amanda Terkel 2011
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They know that for every outreach they make to the moderates, to the so-called persuadable voters, their conservative base needs to hear them hammer away at John Kerry.
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The issues we want to hear from them will be significant, of course, because these are a representative group of other so-called persuadable voters around the country.
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But the study did not focus on the small sliver of "persuadable" voters in each election who decide the outcome.
Paul Hogarth: As Prop 8 Trial Concludes, Study Shows Risk of Rushing to Ballot 2010
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Strikingly, Podhorzer said that his union's internal polls -- which push voters hard on the question of whether people are really firmly committed to their pick -- show that as many as "15 to 20 percent" of battleground state voters remain "persuadable," as he put it, despite what public polls say about the level of undecided voters.
Top Obama Labor Supporter Warns Race Remains Volatile, Says Voters Lack Clear Sense Of Obama 2009
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As Democrats push for a single Republican vote needed to give the White House a filibuster-proof Sen.te majority on financial regulation legislation, Tennessee Sen. Robert Corker remains at or near the top of their "persuadable" list.
NPR Topics: News 2010
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As Democrats push for a single Republican vote needed to give the White House a filibuster-proof Sen.te majority on Tennessee Sen. Robert Corker remains at or near the top of their "persuadable"
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