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The evidence is compelling.compelling = very interesting; or convincing
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Her presentation was compelling.
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It was the call, the many-noted call, sounding more luringly and compellingly than ever before. (source)compellingly = in a manner that could not be resisted
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It was not exactly a compelling reason to stay on in Welch for one more year.† (source)compelling = very interesting; or convincing; or a force for action
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By the time of her death five years later, it would be bobbed, more fashionable, less compelling.† (source)
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The hint of what was concealed in those shadows terrified me, but I caught sight of something in the glimpse, some forbidden and elemental riddle that was no less compelling than the sweet, hidden petals of a woman's sex.† (source)
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Harding had an academic bent, and the prospect of writing the first Textbook of Veterinary Internal Medicine: Diseases of Dinosauria was compelling.† (source)compelling = very interesting; or convincing; or a force for action
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And then, most compellingly for Laila, there is Mariam.† (source)
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Whatever this kid—or this bit of kid—in his head is compelling him to do, it's completely beyond Cy's understanding.† (source)
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Yet there are times when a deeper need enters, when we want the poem to be not only pleasurably right but compellingly wise, not only a surprising variation played upon the world, but a re-tuning of the world itself.† (source)
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I scrolled through my endless TV options, none of them particularly compelling, until I heard Davis's knock—soft and unsteady—on the door.† (source)
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And how distant, cold, and compellingly attractive was this woman to whom he had sacrificed all he had, whom he had preferred to everything, and in comparison with whom everything seemed to him worthless!† (source)
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In the past few years, William Julius Wilson, Charles Murray, Robert Putnam, and Raj Chetty have authored compelling, well-researched tracts demonstrating that upward mobility fell off in the 1970s and never really recovered, that some regions have fared much worse than others (shocker: Appalachia and the Rust Belt score poorly), and that many of the phenomena I saw in my own life exist across society.† (source)
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What a compellingly modern horror story.† (source)
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Today, I prepared a defense so compelling for my client, he actually offered to pay me more money.† (source)
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UNFORTUNATELY, however, the Christmas dinner at the Griffiths', which included the Starks and their daughter Arabella, Mr. and Mrs. Wynant, who in the absence of their daughter Constance with Gilbert were dining with the Griffiths, the Arnolds, Anthonys, Harriets, Taylors and others of note in Lycurgus, so impressed and even overawed Clyde that although five o'clock came and then six, he was incapable of breaking away or thinking clearly and compellingly of his obligation to Roberta.† (source)
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