3 uses
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Definition
try to obtain a result through gentle and careful effort — often gentle persuasion
- All from governments that had been coaxed for three years with promises of power.Chapter 37 (1% in)
- The wood was actually moving under the woodworker's bare hands, as if he were successfully coaxing it to reshape itself.Chapter 14 (21% in)
- He was a storyteller, not a craftsman, but he had enough basic skill to quickly reshape the sword by coaxing the wood into what looked more like a sword.Chapter 25 (55% in)
There are no more uses of "coax" in Black: The Birth of Evil.
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