goad

We use cartoon characters to goad them into begging their parents for them.

People will get out of bed--and invest--when it's right for them, and they don't need people like you to goad them into it.

He wants to try and goad ministers into talking about whether such a drug would be banned or allowed.

His phone probably didnt stop for days with media ringing him up trying to goad something out of him.

On the thermostat, I get the impression McCarthy was being a bit obtuse just to goad Searle a little.

Unfortunately, this user interpreted it to be a taunt or goad.

Letting the other person think, talk, and say what you need them to say rather than trying to goad them into it is an essential business skill.

I'm suspicious of the utility* of apps that need to goad non-users into joining.

In this day and age do we still believe in these traditional gender roles, that only a man can be effective in a leadership position?And then some victim blaming: "Mayer didn't [...] [goad] the "dirty old man" with some low-cut top or skimpy outfit [...] But, of course, you weren't even wondering that, were you?

Or at least pass some protectionist tariffs?If we did that, with the foolish misconception that it would help our economy, we would goad other countries into passing tariffs, and the whole world economy would hurt.

Instead we live in an Orwellian state of perpetual war, one which the New York Times was happy to goad us into back in the days when they actually sold newspapers and profited from a nation's feelings of hurt and lust for vengeance.

This is SOP for tech journalism - throw out some inaccuracies to goad people into offering corrections, leaving some gaping holes, maybe a bit of ad hominem here and there to incite some rage, then corral people into your comment section for even more precioussss page views.