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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
convince .
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Examples
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Martin convinces her to go out sailing with her one night.
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The photo of Sarah Pain convinces me to vote for her if she runs in 2012 for prez of U.S.
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Train convinces Bishop, and later Hector and Stamps, that the boy should remain with them.
Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2008
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Levin convinces us of this in a prose sometimes poetic and surprising, always visceral, dense and interesting but which, at times, collapses in on itself.
An Amazon.com Books Blog featuring news, reviews, interviews and guest author blogs. 2008
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The PR guy, let's call him Ray cuz that's his name convinces Hancock to turn himself in to the police and go to jail.
Dart Adams presents The Dartflix Film Review: Hancock Dart Adams 2008
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Lincoln could absorb the hurts and slights — suck it up, as we would say today — because he possessed, Goodwin convinces us, the longest possible view.
No Ordinary Tome 2005
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Lincoln could absorb the hurts and slights — suck it up, as we would say today — because he possessed, Goodwin convinces us, the longest possible view.
No Ordinary Tome 2005
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The plot spins off into unusual territory when a black cat, fluent in English, convinces the protagonist that it is the reincarnation of Holiday.
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The spoken word convinces the utterer; but a man can act against his own bad judgment without warping it, and contrive to win in a bad cause without maintaining that it is a good one, like the barrister.
Eve and David 2007
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The spoken word convinces the utterer; but a man can act against his own bad judgment without warping it, and contrive to win in a bad cause without maintaining that it is a good one, like the barrister.
Eve and David 2007
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